Incident Date:
February 25, 1971
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Ontario United States
Perpetrators: Chappin Scott Patterson
Event Type: Hijacking
Weapon Type(s): Unknown
Organization Type:
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: Yes
Target Information
1- Airports & Aircraft(Aircraft (not at an airport))
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: "02/25/1971: Western Airlines flight 328, a B737 flying 97 people from San Francisco to Seattle, Washington, was hijacked out of Ontario, California, by Chappin Scott Patterson, a white male, born on 23 August 1951, in Long Beach, California, who did not meet the Federal Aviation Administration profile. The hijacker, who wished to avoid military service, threatened to blow up the plane if he was not flown to Cuba. He settled on flying to Vancouver, Canada, where he surrendered to the RCMP. He was ordered deported to the U.S. on 2 March and returned on 8 March 1971. He was sentenced on 11 June 1971, to ten years for interference with a flight crew member."
References: 1) "Mickolus, Edward F. (1980). Trasnational Terrorism: Chronology of Events, 1968-1979. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 249."
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