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ET-AIZ Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767-260ER photographed at Frankfurt Rhein-Main (FRA / EDDF) by Demo Borstell

Saturday 23 November 1996 Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767-260ER ET-AIZ c/n 23916.

ISP Flight ET961 from Addis Ababa (ADD) to Nairobi (NBO) with 12 crew and 163 passengers. En route the airplane was hijacked. The hijackers ordered the captain to fly to Australia. The captain tried to explain to the hijackers he was running out of fuel, but they did not listen and one of the hijackers in the co-pilot seat was playing dangerously with the controls while drinking whiskey. The engine stopped as fuel ran out and a little later the aircraft ditched in sea, 500m from La Galawa beach, Comores.

First flight : 1987. Airframe hrs : 32353 cycles : 12623 engines : P&W JT9D-7R4E. 125 people died in the crash and 46 injured.

location : 0,5 km N off Mitsamiouli, Grande Comore +- 300m 11°22’S 43°18’E (from the accident report)

The Dead Man's Gambit: The crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 961 | by Admiral Cloudberg | Medium

OTD in 1996, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 (ET-AIZ) a Boeing 767-200ER crashes into the Indian Ocean near Grande Comore after running out of fuel because of a hijacking; in which the hijackers

N334AA | Boeing 767-223(ER) | American Airlines | Joop Stroes | JetPhotos

N334AA taking off from Zurich, Kloten apt, August 1996.

Tuesday 11 September 2001 American Airlines Boeing 767-223ER N334AA c/n 22332

DSP Flight AA011 from Boston (BOS) to Los Angeles (LAX) with 11 crew and 81 passengers. First flight : 1987. The airplane was taken over by suicide hijackers leaded by Mohammed Atta , who flew the aircraft against the WTC North Tower in New York at 08.46 hour between 94^th and 99^th floor. As a result of the crash and resulting fire the North Tower collapsed at 10.28 hr.

Airframe hrs : 58350 cycles : 11789 engines : CF6-80A2. All 92 people died in the crash and 1600 dead in the WTC North Tower.

location : +- 20m 40°42’44.63”N 74°00’46.91”W

Destroyed WTC towers, New York,11 September 2011

B-2552 Air China Boeing 767-2J6ER photographed at Beijing Capital (PEK / ZBAA) by Javier Rodriguez

Monday 15 April 2002 Air China Boeing 767-2J6ER B-2552 c/n 23308

ISP Flight CA129 from Beijing (PEK) to Pusan (PUS), South-Korea. with 11 crew and 155 passengers. First flight : 1985.Airframe hrs : 39541 cycles : 14308 engines : P&W JT9D-7R4E4. 129 people died in the crash, 37 survived. Cause : CFIT into Mt. Dotdae during an IFR circle approach to RW 18R in poor visibility.

location : 4,6 km N of RW 18R Pusan-Kimhae Airport (PUS) , 35°13’57.73”N 128° 55’40.80”E (from the accident report)

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