Incident Date:
April 23, 1970
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Petosky United States
Perpetrators: Joseph A. Wagstaff
Event Type: Hijacking
Weapon Type(s): Fake Weapons
Organization Type:
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: Yes
Target Information
1- Transportation (Other than aviation)(Bus (excluding tourist))
Canadian Target: No
Canadian Victim: No
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 1 involved, 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "04/23/1970: Joseph A Wagstaff, a white male born 24/06/1928, for whom the Federal Aviation Administration profile was inapplicable, hijacked a bus from Petosky, Michigan, to the Pellston airport. There, wielding a knife and toy gun, he used the driver as a hostage in order to enter North Central flight 945, a DC9 picking up passengers on its way from Detroit to Sault Sainte Marie. The crew stalled, allowing the passengers to disembark. Some of them phoned Michigan state police, who overpowered Wagstaff after he threatened the crew. Wagstaff, who was later committed, had wanted to go to Detroit."
References: 1) "Mickolus, Edward F. (1980). Trasnational Terrorism: Chronology of Events, 1968-1979. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 174-175."
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