Skip to main content

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Preferred term

TWA flight 355 hijacking  

Definition

  • Shortly after Trans World Airlines Flight 355 left New York's La Guardia Airport on September 10, 1976, Croatian nationalists skyjacked the aircraft by displaying what they claimed were “five gelignite bombs.” The Boeing 727's crew and the 81 passengers bound for Chicago followed the hijackers’ instructions, unaware that the so-called bombs were in fact made of Silly Putty. The group of hijackers, led by the Croat Zvonko Busic and his American wife, Julienne Busic, a former TWA stewardess, took the plane on a bizarre transatlantic journey. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism; Twa Flight 355 Hijacking]

Belongs to group

URI

https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/TWA_flight_355_hijacking

Download this concept: