Incident Date:
December 25, 1974
Incident Successful: No
Location: Beirut Lebanon
Perpetrators: Josef Homolov
Event Type: Hijacking
Weapon Type(s): Primitive/Melee (Knife or Other Sharp Object)
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: Yes
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 1 involved, 0 fatalities, 1 injuries
Description: "12/25/1974: Josef Homolov, a Czechoslovak-born Canadian, hijacked an Air India B747 flying 155 passengers on the Bombay-Beirut-Rome-New York run in Beirut. Homolov entered the cockpit and flashed a pocketknife. While holding a flashlight over the pilot's head, he demanded a gun and passage to a place of his choice. During the two-hour siege, he attempted to force the pilot to put the plane into a sharp dive over the center of Rome. At this point, members of the crew overpowered the hijacker was overpowered. Homolov received a minor head injury and was arrested by Italian authorities upon landing safely in Rome."
References: 1) RAND
2) "Mickolus, Edward F. (1980). Trasnational Terrorism: Chronology of Events, 1968-1979. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 497"
3) "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. 151"
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