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Malaysian Airline System Flight 653

Malaysian Airline System Flight 653
A Malaysian Airline System Boeing 737-200 registered as 9M-MBH, similar to the aircraft involved in the incident.
Hijacking
Date4 December 1977
SummaryHijacking by Japanese Red Army
SiteTanjung Kupang, Johor, Malaysia
1°23′19″N 103°31′53″E / 1.3887°N 103.5314°E / 1.3887; 103.5314
Aircraft
Aircraft typeBoeing 737-2H6
OperatorMalaysian Airline System
Registration9M-MBD
Flight originPenang International Airport
Last stopoverSultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport
DestinationSingapore Int'l Airport (Paya Lebar)
Occupants100
Passengers93
Crew7
Fatalities100
Survivors0

Malaysian Airline System Flight 653 (MH653) was a scheduled domestic flight from Penang to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, operated by Malaysian Airline System (MAS). On the evening of 4 December 1977, the Boeing 737-200 aircraft flying the service crashed at Tanjung Kupang, Johor, Malaysia, while purportedly being diverted by hijackers to Singapore.[1] It was the first fatal air crash for Malaysia Airlines[2][3] (as the airline is now known), with all 93 passengers and 7 crew killed.[4][5] It is also the deadliest aviation disaster to occur on Malaysian soil.[6] The flight was apparently hijacked as soon as it reached cruise altitude. The circumstances in which the hijacking and subsequent crash occurred remain unsolved.

  1. ^ "A hijacked Malaysian airlines jet with 100 persons aboard exploded and crashed Sunday night". Associated Press. 4 December 1977.
  2. ^ "Malaysia Airlines flight crashes with 50 on board". Agence France Presse. 15 September 1995.
  3. ^ "Worst MAS plane crash occurred in 1977". New Straits Times. 15 September 1995. p. 4.
  4. ^ "All 100 Aboard Killed in Crash of Hijacked Malaysian Airliner". Toledo Blade. Johore Baharu. Associated Press. 4 December 1977. Retrieved 22 July 2014 – via Google News.
  5. ^ "Hijacked Jet Crashes in Malaysia; All 100 Aboard Are Feared Dead". The New York Times. Associated Press. 5 December 1977. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference ASN was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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