Ansett Airlines Flight 232 [SEP] point in time
Ansett Airlines Flight 232
Ansett Airlines Flight 232, on Wednesday, 15 November 1972, was a trip from Adelaide, South Australia aboard a Fokker Friendship bound for Alice Springs, Northern Territory. It was the occasion of a hijacking which resulted in the perpetrator's death by suicide.
A male passenger, subsequently identified as Miloslav Hrabinec, a Czech migrant, had boarded the flight in Adelaide with a concealed sawn-off .22 ArmaLite rifle and a sheath knife strapped to his leg. About a half-hour before the
to extort the release of the three surviving perpetrators of the Munich massacre.
- November 15 – Ansett Airlines Flight 232, a Fokker F27 Friendship, was hijacked. Plane landed at Alice Springs Airport. The perpetrator killed himself after a shootout with the police. One of 32 on board killed.
- December 3 – Spantax Flight 275, a Convair 990 Coronado, crashed in Tenerife while taking off in almost zero visibility. All 155 passengers and crew on board were killed.
- December 8 – United Airlines Flight