Attempted hijacking of an An-24 to Turkey (1978)
1st Krasnodar Joint Aviation Detachment, North Caucasus Civil Aviation Directorate Antonov An-24 · Hijacking
From Pashkovsky, Krasnodar to Bina, Baku
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
- 46
- 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
- 1
- 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
- Airline
Antonov An-24
- Aircraft type
- Antonov AN-24
- 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-46789
- Onboard fatalities
- 1
- Route
- From Pashkovsky, KrasnodarTo Bina, Baku
Approximate · Estimated position: Makhachkala Uytash International Airport, the airport the Wikipedia article names as the site. Where on or near it is not known.
From the Wikipedia article
The attempted hijacking of an An-24 to Turkey took place on Thursday 9 November (according to other sources, 10 November) 1978, when on board an Aeroflot An-24B one of the passengers attempted to hijack the aircraft to Turkey; the crew resisted and headed for Makhachkala. The hijacker was later found dead, and the circumstances of his death have not been fully established.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Попытка угона Ан-24 в Турцию (1978)” (revision 150406511, 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 угона Ан-24 в Турцию (1978)
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 150406511 · 2025-12-02 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q55185304
- 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 угона Ан-24 в Турцию (1978)" (page 7499488, revision 150406511), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- airport the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata code, OurAirports)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): An Aeroflot An-24 carrying passengers from Krasnodar to Baku when a passenger tried to hijack it: an airline passenger flight. The article: "on board an Aeroflot An-24B one of the passengers attempted to hijack the aircraft to Turkey"
- 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.