Incident Date:
April 13, 1971
Incident Successful: No
Location: Dauphin, Manitoba Canada
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Hijacking
Weapon Type(s): Primitive/Melee (Knife or Other Sharp Object)
Organization Type:
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Airports & Aircraft(Aircraft (not at an airport))
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 3 involved, 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "04/13/1971: Three juveniles used sharpened toothbrushes to hijack a Midwest Airlines Piper Navajo flying between Dauphin and Winnipeg with eight persons on board. The youths, identified as Jeffrey M. Howdle, Leslie Lamirande, and Gary G. Rusk, wanted the Transair-Midwest plane to fly to Yorkton, Saskatchewan, but the plane used cloud cover to foil the youths and landed in Winnipeg, where the trio were taken into custody."
References: 1) "Mickolus, Edward F. (1980). Trasnational Terrorism: Chronology of Events, 1968-1979. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 258."
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