Incident Date:
July 05, 1972
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Sacramento United States
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Hijacking
Weapon Type(s): Firearms (Unknown Gun Type)
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: Yes
Canadian Perpetrator: No
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 1 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 2 involved, 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: 07/05/1972: Two Bulgarians hijacked a Pacific Southwest Airlines flight en route from Sacramento-San Francisco. A Canadian passenger was killed in gun battle between hijackers and FBI.
References: 1) "Ross, Jeffrey I. (1992). ATIC IV: Chronology of Domestic and International Terrorist Events in Canada, 1960-1990. Montreal, Qc: International Centre for Comparative Criminology. p. 146"
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