Incident Date:
January 14, 1972
Incident Successful:
Location: Montreal, Quebec Canada
Perpetrators: Rejean Turpin
Event Type: Threat
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: Yes
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 1 involved, 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "01/14/1972: Rejean Turpin, 33, threatened to sabotage an Air Canada flight from Montreal to Barbados if one of the passengers did not repay him some money. His phone call was traced, and Turpin was later arrested. He was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary."
References: 1) "Mickolus, Edward F. (1980). Trasnational Terrorism: Chronology of Events, 1968-1979. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 296."
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