Attempted hijacking of a Yak-12 over Yerevan
Aeroflot (Armenian Separate Aviation Group of the Civil Air Fleet) Yakovlev Yak-12 · Aircraft hijacking
From Erebuni, Yerevan to Yeghegnadzor
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 3
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 3
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Unknown
Yakovlev Yak-12
- Aircraft type
- Yakovlev YAK-12
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- CCCP-44348
- Onboard fatalities
- 1
- Route
- From Erebuni, YerevanTo Yeghegnadzor
Approximate · Estimated position: Yerevan, near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
On Sunday 10 September 1961, in the sky near Yerevan, a group of three armed men attempted to seize a Yak-12M light aircraft of the Aeroflot enterprise and flee in it to Turkey. However, as a result of the pilot's resistance, the aircraft crashed near the city; one of the hijackers died, and the others were captured and convicted.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Попытка захвата Як-12 над Ереваном” (revision 154269011, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Russian Wikipedia article: Попытка захвата Як-12 над Ереваном
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 154269011 · 2026-08-06 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q55185292
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- ru Wikipedia article "Попытка захвата Як-12 над Ереваном" (page 7498650, revision 154269011), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- not stated in the Wikipedia article's infobox or opening paragraph
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Russian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.