Incident Date:
May 05, 1969
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: New York United States
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Hijacking
Weapon Type(s): Firearms (Handgun)
Organization Type:
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Airports & Aircraft(Aircraft (not at an airport))
Canadian Target: No
Canadian Victim: No
Canadian Perpetrator: Yes
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 2 involved, 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "05/05/1969: National Airlines flight 91, a B727 flying from New York to Miami, was hijacked to Havana with 73 people on board, by two pistol-wielding white Canadians who met the Federal Aviation Administration profile. They were identified as Jean Pierre Charrette, born July 7, 1923, in Hull, Quebec, and Alain Allard, born January 21, 1947. They remain fugitives from an indictment handed down by federal grand jury in the District of Columbia on January 23, 1975. "
References: 1) RAND
2) "Mickolus, Edward F. (1980). Trasnational Terrorism: Chronology of Events, 1968-1979. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press p. 120."
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