1971 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1971:

Years in aviation: 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974
Centuries: 19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades: 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
Years: 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974

Events
  • The Peruvian Army reestablishes Peruvian Army Aviation.
  • Assessing the prospects for the development of hypersonic airliners, John Becker and Frank Kirkham of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) Langley Research Center project that a 750,000-pound (340,198 kg) hypersonic transport (HST) capable of Mach 6 speeds and carrying 300 passengers from Los Angeles to Paris, France, in 2 hours 42 minutes could be operating by 1995.[1]
  • Erickson Air-Crane Incorporated, the future Erickson Inc., is established.
  • Trans European Airways begins flight operations, offering four flights with a Boeing 720.

January

February

March

April
  • Using CH-53A Sea Stallion helicopters, the U.S. Navy's Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 12 (HM-12) and Mobile Mine Countermeaures Command begin the development of specifications for the U.S. Navy's first air mine countermeasures aircraft.[34]
  • April 9 – The last major airmobile operation of the Vietnam War, Operation Lam Son 719, ends after North Vietnamese Army forces drive all South Vietnamese forces out of Laos with heavy casualties. Facing the heaviest antiaircraft artillery fire of the war, American helicopter crews have suffered casualties of 176 killed, 1,942 wounded, and 42 missing, with 107 helicopters destroyed and 600 damaged. The operation has demonstrated a need for the U.S. Army to develop a specialized antitank attack helicopter.[28]
  • April 21 – A hijacker commandeers Eastern Airlines Flight 403, a Douglas DC-8 with 59 people on board flying from Newark, New Jersey, to Miami, Florida, and demands to be flown to Italy.[35]
  • April 25 – An Ecuadorian male passenger attempts to hijack an Avianca Boeing 727-59 (registration HK-1337) during a domestic flight in Colombia from Baranquilla to Medellín with 52 people on board. Passengers and crew members overpower him, and the airliner lands safely in Medellín.[36]
  • April 26 – Lieutenant Colonel Thomas B. Estes (pilot) and Major Dewain C. Vick (reconnaissance systems officer) make a record-breaking nonstop flight of 15,000 miles (24,155 km) in an SR-71 Blackbird of the U.S. Air Force's 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, at times exceeding Mach 3. They will receive the MacKay Trophy for the flight.[37]
  • April 29 – A male passenger hijacks Avianca Flight 81, a Boeing 720 flying from Los Angeles, California, to Bogotá, Colombia, with a stop en route at Mexico City, Mexico, and demands to be flown to Cuba. The airliner diverts to Panama City, Panama, where the hijacker is arrested.[38]

May
  • May 8
  • May 13 – A hijacker commandeers an All Nippon Airways NAMC YS-11 at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan, as it prepares to depart for Sendai, Japan. Security forces storm the airliner and arrest the hijacker.[40]
  • May 17 – Holding a knife to the throat of his girlfriend, an American man hijacks an SAS Douglas DC-9 preparing to depart Malmö, Sweden, for a domestic flight to Stockholm. He demands to be flown to the United States to see his mother, but surrenders after 45 minutes.[41]
  • May 20 – Boeing announces that it has canceled its Supersonic Transport (SST) project.[27]
  • May 23 – Aviogenex Flight 130, a chartered Tupolev Tu-134A (registration YU-AHZ) carrying British vacationers from London's Gatwick Airport, crashes while landing in heavy rain at Rijeka Airport in Rijeka, Yugoslavia, losing its right wing and coming to rest upside down; a fire breaks out and burns the plane out. The crash kills 78 people of the 83 people on board.[42]
  • May 24 – Flight testing of the Grumman F-14 Tomcat resumes after the December 30, 1970, crash of the first prototype.[43]
  • May 27 – Six hijackers commandeer a TAROM Ilyushin Il-14 with 30 people on board during a domestic flight in Romania from Oradea to Bucharest. They force it to divert to Vienna, Austria, where they surrender to the authorities.[44]
  • May 28
    • World War II hero and movie star Audie Murphy is among five people killed in the crash of an Aero Commander 680 (registration N601JJ) flying in heavy thunderstorms over mountainous terrain near Catawba, Virginia.[45]
    • Near Wilmington, Delaware, James Bennett hijacks Eastern Airlines Flight 30, a Boeing 727 with 138 people on board, during a flight from Miami, Florida, to New York City, claiming to have a bomb and a vial of acid. He directs it to land at its intended destination, La Guardia Airport in New York City, where he releases the passengers and five flight attendants and insists that Eastern Airlines officials bring his ex-wife and a New York City Police Department supervisor to meet him. When his ex-wife refuses to come, he orders the plane to take off and demands to be flown to Shannon, Ireland. Informed that the plane could not fly that far, he agrees to be flown to Nassau in the Bahamas, where he demands to be given $500,000 by an Eastern Airlines official and a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). When he disembarks at Nassau and crosses to tarmac to pick up the money, an Eastern Airlines pilot posing as an IRA commander overpowers him. He turns out to have no explosives.[46][47][48]
  • May 29 – A hijacker commandeers Pan American World Airways Flight 442, a Boeing 707 with 69 people on board, during a flight from Caracas, Venezuela, to Miami, Florida, and forces it to fly to Cuba.[49]

June
  • The last United States Marine Corps helicopters depart Vietnam.[21]
  • June 4 – Armed with a .32-caliber pistol and a box containing 50 bullets and wanting to leave the United States before it is incinerated by a "super-bomb," drunken 58-year-old retired coal miner Glen Elmo Riggs hijacks United Airlines Flight 796, a Boeing 737-200 with 72 people on board flying from Charleston, West Virginia, to Newark, New Jersey, and demands to be flown to Israel, where he says he hopes to help build a temple. The airliner diverts to Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia, where Riggs releases the passengers and waits for a Douglas DC-8 to arrive to take him to Israel. After three hours on the ground, the copilot grabs Riggs′ gun when he leaves it behind in the cockpit while he gets a glass of water. Police then storm the plane and arrest Riggs, who later claims not to remember the events aboard Flight 796.[50][51]
  • June 6 – Hughes Airwest Flight 706, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31, and a United States Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4B-18-MC Phantom II of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 323 (VMFA-323) collide over the San Gabriel Mountains near Duarte, California. Both aircraft crash, killing all 49 people on board the DC-9 and one of the two men in the F-4B.
  • June 11 – At O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, 23-year-old Gregory White boards Trans World Airlines Flight 358, a Boeing 727 with 26 people on board preparing to depart for John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, without a ticket. He produces a gun, threatens a female flight attendant, demands to be flown to North Vietnam, and shoots to death 65-year-old passenger Howard Franks when Franks moves toward him; Franks is the first America airline passenger to be killed as a result of a hijacking. The passengers panic and stampede off the plane, after which White adds $75,000 and a loaded machine gun to his demands. While the plane is being prepared for departure, a Deputy United States Marshal enters the plane via a cockpit window with two guns, one of which he hands to a crew member. When White lets go of the flight attendant sometime between 30 and 60 minutes after takeoff, the deputy marshal emerges from the cockpit and he and the crew member open fire on White, wounding him. White fires back and hides behind a row of seats. The airliner lands safely at John F. Kennedy International Airport, where White is wounded again in an exchange of gunfire with a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and surrenders. Criticized for allowing White to get so far without a ticket, a Trans World Airlines spokesman rejects any changes to the airline's security policies, saying, "How far can the airlines go? Restrict everyone from the terminal except those who have a ticket? Stop everyone from entering the airport area except those who have a ticket?"[52][53][54]
  • June 17 – After Piedmont Airlines Flight 25, a Boeing 737-200, arrives at Smith Reynolds Airport outside Winston-Salem, North Carolina, after a flight from New York City, 26-year-old Bobby Richard White enters the cockpit and orders the pilot to fly him to Cuba, claiming to have nitroglycerine and sulfuric acid in a bag that would explode if he dropped it. Receiving word from the driver of the car that brought White to the airport that White had casually tossed the bag onto the car seat without an explosion, a Piedmont Airlines official dressed as a pilot boards the plane to try to overpower White. When a federal air marshal dressed as a pilot walks onto the tarmac and distracts White, the Piedmont official pins White against a wall. White's bag contains no explosives.[55][56]
  • June 18 – Southwest Airlines begins scheduled service with flights from Dallas Love Field to Houston and San Antonio. The airline obtained an air operator's certificate from the State of Texas in February 1968 but had spent 3 years overcoming lawsuits challenging the certificate's validity.[57]
  • June 20 – A male passenger with a knife hijacks an Avianca Douglas DC-4 (registration HK-115) shortly after takeoff from Montería, Colombia, demanding to flown to Mexico. The pilot lands the airliner at Medellin, Colombia, and tells the hijacker that they have arrived in Mexico. The crew then overpowers the hijacker.[58]
  • June 29 – A hijacker commandeers a Finnair Douglas DC-9-32 during a flight from Helsinki, Finland, to Copenhagen, Denmark. The hijacker is overpowered and the airliner completes its flight safely.[59]

July
  • July 1
  • July 3 – A NAMC YS-11A-217 operating as Toa Domestic Airlines Flight 63 crashes into the south face of Yokotsu Mountain in Japan, killing all 68 people on board.
  • July 4 – A hijacker aboard a Cruzeiro do Sul NAMC YS-11A-202 (registration PP-CTJ) making a domestic flight in Brazil from Belém to Macapá forces the airliner to divert to Cayenne in French Guiana, Georgetown, in Guyana, Trinidad in Trinidad and Tobago, Antigua, and Jamaica.[62]
  • July 12 – A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 707 flying from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to Beirut, Lebanon, is hijacked and forced to fly to Damascus, Syria.[63]
  • July 16 – Jeanne M. Holm is promoted to brigadier general, the first woman in the United States Air Force to become a general.[64]
  • July 22 – Six passengers hijack Olympic Airways Flight 255, a Boeing 727 flying from Beirut, Lebanon, to Athens, Greece, and threaten to blow up the airliner if seven Arab terrorists are not released from Greek prisons. The plane lands at Athens, where all the passengers are released, then flies to Cairo, Egypt.[65]
  • July 23 – Armed with a stolen Walther P38 pistol, 26-year-old Richard Obergfell takes 21-year-old flight attendant Idie Maria Concepcion hostage and hijacks Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight 335, a Boeing 727 with 61 people on board flying from New York City′s La Guardia Airport to Chicago, Illinois, and demands to be flown to Italy so that he can meet an Italian woman in Milan who is his pen pal and he has fallen in love with. Informed that the 727 lacks the range to reach Italy, he agrees to change planes, and the 727 returns to La Guardia Airport. Obergfell releases all the passengers and crew except for Concepcion, who he holds at gunpoint while he rides in a van to John F. Kennedy International Airport, where TWA is readying a Boeing 707 (registration N8733) for the flight to Italy. As Obergfell marches Concepcion across the tarmac to the 707 at John F. Kennedy Airport, Federal Bureau of Investigation sniper Kenneth Lovin shoots him twice. Obergfell dies 30 minutes later.[66][67]
  • July 24 – Armed with a small pistol and a stick of dynamite, 29-year-old Santiago Guerra-Valdez stands up 17 minutes after takeoff aboard National Airlines Flight 183 – a Douglas DC-8 flying from Miami to Jacksonville, Florida, with 83 people on board – and rushes toward the cockpit. When an unsuspecting passenger opens a lavatory door, a spooked Guerra-Valdez opens fire, wounding a flight attendant and a passenger. He then forces the pilot to fly the airliner to Cuba, where he disembarks. After eight hours on the ground in Cuba, the airliner is allowed to return to the United States.[68][69]
  • July 25 – Four armed members of the Comando Unido Revolucionario Dominicana ("United Dominican Revolutionary Command") hijack an Aeronaves de México Douglas DC-9-15 with 31 people on board after it takes off from Acapulco, Mexico, for a domestic flight to Mexico City, demanding to be flown to Cuba. The airliner stops at Mexico City to refuel before flying to Havana, Cuba.[70]
  • July 28 – A hijacker commanders an Aerolineas Argentinas Boeing 737-287 (registration LV-JMX) with 49 people on board during a domestic flight in Argentina from Salta to Buenos Aires, demanding to be flown to Cuba. The airliner diverts to Córdoba, Argentina, where the hijacker surrenders.[71]
  • July 29 – The U.S. Air Force and U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) complete their joint flight testing of the Martin Marietta X-24A lifting body. The data gathered during the flight-test program will assist in the design of NASA's Space Shuttle.[72]
  • July 30

August

September

October
  • In the Mediterranean, a U.S. Navy air mine countermeasures unit participates in an overseas exercise for the first time.[80]
  • October 1 – Aurigny Air Services commences operations with the Britten-Norman Trislander.[4]
  • October 4 – Two hijackers demanding to be flown to Iraq commandeer an Alia Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle flying from Beirut, Lebanon, to Amman, Jordan, with 67 people on board. After the airliner lands in Amman, the hijackers are subdued.[81]
  • October 9 – When a visibly nervous 31-year-old Richard Frederick Dixon is stopped for questioning while boarding Eastern Airlines Flight 953 – a Boeing 727 flying from Detroit, Michigan, to Miami, Florida, with 46 people on board – he pulls out a pistol, takes a stewardess hostage, and demands that the plane fly him to Cuba, saying that he admires radical activist Angela Davis and has a distaste for life in the United States. While Dixon holds his gun on the stewardess for three hours, the airliner's captain, who also had been hijacked to Cuba in 1961, flies the airliner to Cuba, where Cuban soldiers take Dixon into custody.[82][83]
  • October 10 – United Arab Airlines changes its name to EgyptAir.
  • October 12 – Two passengers hijack an Avensa Convair CV-580 (registration YV-C-AVA) during a domestic flight in Venezuela from Barcelona to Caracas and demand that it fly them to Cuba. The airliner stops to refuel at Curaçao, where the hijackers release three mothers and their young children, then proceeds to Havana, Cuba.[84]
  • October 14 – The Hague Hijacking Convention, formally the "Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft," enters into force. It requires signatory countries to prohibit and punish the hijacking of civilian aircraft in situations in which an aircraft takes off or lands in a place different from its country of registration. It also establishes the principle of aut dedere aut judicare, which holds that a party to the convention must prosecute an aircraft hijacker if no other state requests his or her extradition for prosecution of the same crime.
  • October 16 – A hijacker seizes control of an Olympic Airways NAMC YS-11 with 64 people on board during a domestic flight in Greece from Kalamata to Athens and demand that it fly to Lebanon. After the airliner lands at Athens, security forces storm it and arrest the hijacker.[85]
  • October 18 – Recently paroled afer serving five years in prison for manslaughter and armed with a small-caliber pistol, Del Lavon Thomas hijacks Wien Consolidated Airlines Flight 15 – a Boeing 737-200 with 35 people on board making a flight in Alaska from Anchorage to Bethel – and demands that it stop at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to refuel, then take him to Mexico City, Mexico. After it takes off from Vancouver to fly to Mexico City, Thomas changes his mind and orders it to return to Vancouver, where he enters into negotiations with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, hoping to find a way to avoid going to jail for his actions. After realizing that avoiding prison is impossible, he surrenders quietly to the police.[86][87]
  • October 20 – Six people hijack a SAETA Vickers Viscount during a domestic flight in Ecuador from Quito to Cuenca.[88]
  • October 25 – A hijacker commandeers Pan American World Airways Flight 98 – a Boeing 747 with 236 people on board flying from New York City to San Juan, Puerto Rico – and forces it to fly to Havana, Cuba.[89]
  • October 26 – A 20-year-old hijacker armed with a gun seizes control of an Olympic Airways Douglas DC-6B with 64 people on board during a domestic flight in Greece from Athens to Crete and demands that it fly to Rome, Italy. Passengers overpower the hijacker.[90]
  • October 27 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo changes its name to Zaire, prompting its national airline to change its name from Air Congo to Air Zaïre.

November
  • November 10 – After its flight crew radios that it cannot reach its destination due to bad weather, a Merpati Nusantara Airlines Vickers Viscount bound for Padang on Sumatra in Indonesia crashes into the Indian Ocean off Padang, killing all 69 people on board. It is the deadliest aviation accident in Indonesian history at the time.
  • November 13 – Armed with a sawed-off shotgun, Paul Joseph Cini hijacks Air Canada Flight 812, a Douglas DC-8, during a domestic flight in Canada from Calgary, Alberta, to Toronto, Ontario, identifying himself as a member of the Irish Republican Army and threatening to blow up the plane with dynamite if he does not receive $1.5 million and a flight to Ireland. The airliner diverts to Great Falls, Montana, where Air Canada gives him $50,000, which was all the money it could scrape together on short notice. Cini accepts the reduced amount, and the DC-8 takes off to return to Calgary to refuel. During the flight to Calgary, Cini orders the flight crew to open an emergency exit so that he can parachute from the plane, but he unable to untie twine he has used to tie up a parachute he has brought aboard. When one of the pilots hands Cini a fire ax to use to cut the twine, Cini puts his shotgun down. The pilot kicks the shotgun away and grabs Cini, and another crew member fractures Cini's skull with the ax, bringing the hijacking to an end. Cini is arrested and jailed.[91][92]
  • November 17 – A hijacker takes control of an Arawak Airlines Beechcraft Model 99 making a domestic flight in Trinidad and Tobago from Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, to Tobago, demanding to be flown to Cuba. The plane returns to Trinidad, where the hijacker surrenders.[93]
  • November 24 – A man identifying himself as "Dan Cooper" uses a bomb threat to hijack Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 – a Boeing 727-51 with 35 other passengers and a crew of six on board flying from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington – demanding US$200,000 and four parachutes. Receiving the money and parachutes at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, he allows all passengers and two flight attendants to leave the plane, then orders it flown toward Mexico City; soon after takeoff, he parachutes from the plane with his money, and the airliner lands safely at Reno, Nevada, dragging its aft stairway down the runway. The hijacker is never seen or heard from again and also is never positively identified. The press mistakenly identifies "Dan Cooper" as "D. B. Cooper", the name of another individual questioned in the case, and he goes down in history incorrectly as "D. B. Cooper".[94]
  • November 27 – Three hijackers commandeer Trans World Airlines Flight 106 – a Boeing 727 with 49 people on board flying from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Chicago, Illinois – and force it to fly to Cuba.[95]

December
  • The U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile) begins to withdraw from Vietnam.[28]
  • December 2 – A hijacker commandeers a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720 with 28 passengers on board as it taxis at Orly Airport outside Paris, France, for a flight to Karachi, Pakistan, demanding emergency supplies for East Pakistan. Security forces subdue the hijacker.[96]
  • December 3 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 begins with a Pakistani Air Force attempt at a preemptive strike against Indian Air Force bases, employing no more than 50 aircraft. The strike initially attacks the wrong bases, then mostly misses Indian aircraft when attacking the right bases, and Indian bases are out of action for only a few hours.[97] The Pakistani Air Force then falls into a defensive role for the remainder of the war.
  • December 9–10 (overnight) – Helicopters airlift the Indian Army's 311th Mountain Brigade Group over the Meghna River in East Pakistan, allowing Indian forces to maintain the momentum of their drive on Dacca.[98]
  • December 10 – President Richard M. Nixon warns North Vietnam that American bombing of North Vietnam would resume if North Vietnamese military action against South Vietnam increases as American forces are withdrawn from Vietnam.[99]
  • December 11 – The Indian Army's 2nd Parachute Brigade parachutes from Indian Air Force Antonov An-12s, DHC-4 Caribous, C-82 Packets, and C-47 Dakotas north of Tangail, East Pakistan, prompting a disorganized retreat by the Pakistani Army's 93rd Brigade.[98]
  • December 12 – Four young Nicaraguan men demanding to be taken to Cuba – where they hope to attend college without having to pay tuition – hijack a LANICA BAC One-Eleven (registration AN-BBI) during a flight from San Salvador, El Salvador, to Managua, Nicaragua. When the son of Nicaragua's Minister of Agriculture, a passenger on the plane, tries to resist them, they shoot him in the leg. The airliner diverts to San José, Costa Rica, where 200 soldiers surround the plane and shoot out its tires. President of Costa Rica José "Don Pepe" Figueres Ferrer arrives at the airport armed with a submachine gun and takes part in a subsequent assault on the plane by security forces, which begins with a tear gas attack and culminates in a gun battle in which two of the hijackers are killed and the other two are arrested.[100][101]
  • December 16 – A hijacker demanding to be flown to Cuba seizes control of a Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano Fairchild F27 during a domestic flight in Bolivia from Sucre to La Paz. The airliner diverts to Cochabamba, Bolivia, where security forces storm the plane and arrest the hijacker. One crew member and one passenger are killed during the incident.[102]
  • December 17 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 comes to an end. The Indian Air Force has lost 72 aircraft and the Pakistani Air Force 94 aircraft.[4]
  • December 22 – A hijacker commandeers a North Cay Airways Britten-Norman BN-2A-6 Islander with seven people on board during a domestic flight in the Dominican Republic from Santiago de los Caballeros to Santo Domingo. The airliner diverts to Dajabón, Dominican Republic, where it swerves upon landing, suffering minor damage.[103]
  • December 24
    • Flying in a thunderstorm and severe turbulence, LANSA Flight 508, a Lockheed L-188A Electra, is struck by lightning and disintegrates in mid-air high over Puerto Inca in eastern Peru's Amazon rainforest, killing 91 of the 92 people aboard. The only survivor is 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke, who survives a 2-mile (3 km) fall into the rainforest strapped in her seat, her fall cushioned by the foliage, and walks for 10 days before finding help; 14 other people also survive their falls from the plane but die in the jungle without being rescued. The lost aircraft was the last one in LANSA's fleet, leading to the airline going out of business 11 days later.
    • Firing a .38-caliber revolver twice and claiming to have seven sticks of dynamite in a suitcase, 25-year-old Everett Holt takes a stewardess hostage aboard Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 734, a Boeing 707 with 35 people on board flying from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Chicago, Illinois. He demands that a ransom of US$300,000 in cash and two parachutes be delivered to him by armored truck when the airliner lands at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. After the money and parachutes arrive, Holt releases the three stewardesses and all but one of the passengers, planning to force the remaining hostage to use the extra parachute to jump from the plane with him. Before the plane can take off again, however, the flight crew escapes, and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation blinds Holt with floodlights and orders him to surrender by megaphone. Smiling broadly, he immediately complies, having held the plane for five hours. His pistol turns out to be loaded only with blanks, and his suitcase has no dynamite in it.[104][105][106][107]
  • December 26
    • The United States begins Operation Proud Deep Alpha, which consists of air strikes in three provinces of North Vietnam south of the 20th Parallel. The operation will conclude on December 30.[108]
    • A fugitive after a botched bank robbery in New York City, Republic of New Africa member Patrick Critton hijacks Air Canada Flight 932, a Douglas DC-9-32 with 89 people on board, shortly before it lands at Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the end of a flight from Thunder Bay, Ontario. Claiming to have fragmentation grenades and a .38-caliber revolver, he forces the plane to fly him to Havana, Cuba. It is the first successful hijacking in Canada. Critton will live in Cuba until 1974, then in Tanzania until 1994, before returning undetected to the United States. He finally will be arrested at his home in Mount Vernon, New York on September 8, 2001.[109][110]
    • Acting strangely and making jokes about hijacking the plane during the flight, 24-year-old Donald Coleman pulls out a toy pistol aboard American Airlines Flight 47 – a Boeing 707 with 85 people on board flying from Chicago, Illinois, to San Francisco, California – and demands US$250,000, claiming to be a former United Airlines pilot and to have a bomb that would detonate if the airliner descends below an altitude of 25,000 feet (7,620 meters). He forces the plane to land at Salt Lake City, Utah, where a United States Marine aboard as a passenger tackles and overpowers him as he tries to escape by jumping out of an emergency exit. Cokeman is arrested without further incident.[111][112]
  • December 31 – 2,500 Bangladeshi former employees of Pakistan International Airlines submit a proposal to the Government of Bangladesh to create Air Bangladesh, a national airline for the newly independent Bangladesh. The airline, named Biman Bangladesh Airlines, will be founded in January 1972 and begin flight operations in February 1972.

First flights

January
  • January 20 – Grumman E-2C Hawkeye
  • January 22 – Cessna XMC

February
  • February 26 – Saab-MFI 15 [4]

March

April

May

July

August

September

October
  • October 21 – Italair F.20 Pegaso I-GEAV

December

Entered service

January

February

April

May

August

October

December

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