Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 710

Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 710
A PSA Boeing 737-200 in contemporary livery
Incident
Date 5 July 1972 (1972-07-05)
Summary Hijacking
Site over California
Aircraft
Aircraft type Boeing 737-200
Operator Pacific Southwest Airlines
Flight origin Sacramento Airport
Stopover San Francisco International Airport
Destination Los Angeles International Airport
Passengers 77
Crew 7
Fatalities 3
Injuries 2
Survivors 81

Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 710 was a Boeing 737-200 flight from Sacramento, California, to Los Angeles that was hijacked by Dimitr Alexiev and Michael Azmanoff, two Bulgarian immigrants, on July 5, 1972, shortly after take-off from Sacramento Airport. The hijackers demanded $800,000, two parachutes and to be taken to the Soviet Union. The hijacking ended on the runway at San Francisco International Airport when agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation stormed the plane killing both hijackers. Passenger E. H. Stanley Carter, a sixty-six-year-old retired railroad conductor from Montreal, was also killed; passengers Leo R. Gormley of Los Angeles and actor Victor Sen Yung were wounded and survived. These are the first passengers killed or wounded in a hijacking in the United States.

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