Hijacking | |
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Date | 7 March 1983 |
Summary | Hijacking and subsequent emergency landing and armed intervention |
Site | Varna Airport |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Antonov An-24B |
Operator | Balkan Bulgarian Airlines |
Registration | LZ-AND |
Flight origin | Sofia Vrazhdebna Airport, Sofia, People's Republic of Bulgaria |
Destination | Varna Airport, Varna, People's Republic of Bulgaria |
Occupants | 44 (including 4 hijackers) |
Passengers | 40 (including 4 hijackers) |
Crew | 4 |
Fatalities | 1 (hijacker) |
Injuries | 1 |
Survivors | 43 (including 3 hijackers) |
On 7 March 1983, Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Flight 013,[1] operated by an An-24, was hijacked by four hijackers demanding to go to Austria.[2]