Aer Lingus Flight 164 [SEP] point in time
Aer Lingus Flight 164
Aer Lingus Flight 164 was a scheduled Boeing 737 passenger flight that was hijacked on 2 May 1981, en route from Dublin Airport in Ireland to London Heathrow Airport in the United Kingdom.
Synopsis.
While on approach to Heathrow, about five minutes before the flight was due to land, a 55-year-old Australian named Laurence James Downey went into the toilet and doused himself in petrol. He then went to the cockpit and demanded that the plane continue on to Le Touquet – Côte d'Opale Airport
Aer Lingus Flight 164, a Boeing 737 en route from Dublin to London was hijacked and ordered to fly to Tehran. The flight was diverted to Paris and the hijacker, Laurence Downey, was arrested.
- 5 May – Bobby Sands died on the 66th day of his hunger strike in the Maze Prison.
- 12 May – Francis Hughes, previously the most wanted man in the North, died on the 59th day of his hunger strike in the Maze Prison.
- 21 May – Raymond McCreesh and Patsy