• Aircraft:

  Boeing 737-130

• Reg: N417PE photos
• Serial #:

  19794

• Airline: Continental Airlines
• Photo Date: May 01, 1987
• Uploaded: Sep 28, 2019
• Washington Dulles Int'l Airport - KIAD, USA - Virginia

Delivered in 1969 to Lufthansa as D-ABEY. B/U as XA-RSW with SARO of Mexico. This aircraft was involved in a hijack on 19 Sep 1973 when five terrorist entered the Roma-Fiumicino Airport (FCO) terminal and fired their weapons. They took six hostages and threw incendiary grenades into a PanAm Boeing 707 N407PA, named "Clipper Celestial", that was boarding passengers for a flight to Beirut. The terrorists killed a guard and hijacked D-ABEY, the hijackers ended up in Kuwait where they surrendered on December 18. Other Reg's: N417PE. Seen here in basic "People Express" colours after their merge with Continental. Photographer: Unknown Original Kodak mounted K25 Fernando Mesquita Slide Collection

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