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    The hijacking of Southern Airways Flight 49 started on November 10, 1972 in Birmingham, Alabama, stretching over 30 hours, three countries, and 4,000 miles...
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    Southern Airways began to experience difficulties. Two fatal accidents (Southern Airways Flight 932, November 14, 1970, and Southern Airways Flight 242...
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    Southern Airways Flight 242 was a flight from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to Atlanta, Georgia, with a stop in Huntsville, Alabama. On April 4, 1977, it executed...
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    "Launch of codeshare flights between ITA Airways and Kuwait Airways" (PDF). ITA Airways (Press release). 6 June 2022. "Flight Tracking I Milano Malpensa...
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  • where all hostages were finally released. November 10, 1972: Southern Airways Flight 49, was hijacked by three men and flown to a succession of locations...
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  • Qatar Airways Company Q.C.S.C. (Arabic: الخطوط الجوية القطرية, al-Qaṭariyya), operating as Qatar Airways, is the flag carrier of Qatar. Headquartered in...
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    etihadaviationgroup.com. "Etihad Airways in Brief" (PDF). Etihad Airways. Retrieved 25 June 2012. "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 3 April 2007...
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  • Airways, and two regional airlines, Cambrian Airways and Northeast Airlines. On 31 March 1974, all four companies were merged to form British Airways...
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    Atlantic Airways Flight 670 was a crash following a runway overrun of a British Aerospace 146-200A at 07:32 on 10 October 2006 at Stord Airport, Sørstokken...
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    2022 New terminal gates at CHA May 2024 On November 11, 1972, Southern Airways Flight 49, a hijacked McDonnell Douglas DC-9 with 31 passengers and 3 crew...
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  • airline was acquired by Southern Airways Express in 2019 but continues to operate under its own brand. Both Southern Airways and Mokulele Airlines are...
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  • South African Airways (SAA) is the flag carrier of South Africa. Founded in 1934, the airline is headquartered in Airways Park at O. R. Tambo International...
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    Airport on December 6, 1984, killing all 13 passengers and crew. Southern Airways Flight 49 was successfully hijacked by three passengers and forced to fly...
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  • on transatlantic flights. As of March 2024[update], Atlantic Airways serves the following scheduled destinations: Atlantic Airways also operates charters...
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  • Kenya Airways Ltd., more commonly known as Kenya Airways, is the flag carrier airline of Kenya. The company was founded in 1977, after the dissolution...
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    On November 10, 1972, a trio of hijackers threatened to fly Southern Airways Flight 49 into a nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. As a...
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    Pan Am (redirect from Pan American Airways)
    Pan American World Airways, originally founded as Pan American Airways and more commonly known as Pan Am, was an airline that was the principal and largest...
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  • "Plan your flight". Sudan Airways. Archived from the original on 22 January 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2016. "World Airline Directory – Sudan Airways" (pdf)...
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  • board. July 13 – In the 1928 Imperial Airways Vickers Vulcan crash, an Imperial Airways Vickers Vulcan on a test flight from Croydon Airport, England, crashed...
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    obstacle to warming Cuba-United States relations. Southern Airways Flight 49 Delta Air Lines Flight 821 List of Cuba-United States aircraft hijackings...
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    South African Airways Flight 295 (SA295/SAA295) was a scheduled international passenger flight from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, Taipei, Taiwan...
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  • behind British Airways and BCal Citations "The History Press | the end of an era for Laker Airways". World airline directory, Flight International, 16...
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  • Virgin Atlantic Airways, Fields sold his shares in the company to Richard Branson in return for unlimited free travel. The maiden flight from London–Gatwick...
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    International Airport since 1962, including a flight line ground accident. On November 10, 1972, Southern Airways Flight 49 was hijacked shortly after departing...
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  • founded in 1946. Myanmar Airways International (MAI) took off in August 1993, initially created as a joint venture between Myanma Airways and Singapore-based...
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    singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sleater-Kinney, in Eugene, Oregon Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama, to Montgomery was seized by three hijackers...
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  • Adria Airways d.o.o. (formerly Inex-Adria Aviopromet and later Inex-Adria Airways) was the flag carrier of Slovenia, operating scheduled and charter services...
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  • Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was the British state-owned airline created in 1939 by the merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways Ltd. It continued...
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    List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft Southern Airways Flight 242, another McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 which crash landed on a...
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    British Airways was due to continue until 2010, and under the terms, GB Airways traded as British Airways, with all flights operated under BA flight codes...
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