Scandinavian Airlines Systems Flight 130
| Scandinavian Airlines Systems Flight 130 | |
|---|---|
 An identical DC-9 from the Swedish airline SAS (1982). |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Aircraft hijacking |
| place | near Gothenburg |
| date | 15th September 1972 |
| Survivors | 90 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Douglas DC-9 |
| operator | SAS Scandinavian Airlines |
| Surname | 130 |
| Departure airport | Torslanda Airport |
| Stopover | Bulltofta Airport |
| Destination airport | Stockholm / Arlanda Airport |
| Passengers | 86 |
| crew | 4th |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
The Scandinavian Airlines Systems flight 130 was a Swedish domestic flight operated by SAS Scandinavian Airlines from Gothenburg to Stockholm , on which a Douglas DC-9 was hijacked by exiled Croatian terrorists on September 15, 1972 . The airplane hijacking of Bulltofta ( Swedish Flygkapningen på Bulltofta ) was the first airplane hijacking in Sweden and in 1973 led to the adoption of the still valid Swedish anti-terror law , which has a significant influence on the work of the Säkerhetspolisen (Säpo).
procedure
On September 15, 1972, the Douglas DC-9 "Gunder Viking" took off with 86 passengers and 4 crew members from Gothenburg / Torslanda Airport (in operation until 1977) near Gothenburg with the destination Stockholm / Arlanda Airport .
A few minutes after take-off, the three members of the Croatian Popular Resistance, Tomislav Rebrina (1936-2013), Nikola Lisac (* around 1932) and Rudolf Prskalo (* 1943), took control of the aircraft. They forced the pilots to land at Bulltofta Airport (in service until December 1972) in Malmö .
There they released three hostages and, in return for the release of the remaining hostages, demanded the release of seven Croatians who had been held in Swedish custody for murder and the occupation of the Yugoslav embassy in Gothenburg. Among them were Miro Barešić (1950–1991) and Anđelko Brajković (* 1948), the murderers of the Yugoslav ambassador in Stockholm Vladimir Rolović (1916–1971) who were sentenced to life imprisonment . They had only been arrested a few weeks earlier after an outbreak. The kidnappers topped up their demand for a ransom of 500,000 crowns because one of the seven prisoners did not want to go on board. Because the hijackers threatened to blow up the plane with everyone, the Swedish government responded to the conditions. The Yugoslav government immediately protested with a sharp demarche .
After the hostages were released, the plane flew with the six freed prisoners to Madrid the following morning . Spain did not want to grant them political asylum and the nine Croatians surrendered to the Spanish police without a fight. Spain, ruled by Francisco Franco , refused a Swedish extradition request. All three perpetrators were sentenced on December 5, 1974 by a Spanish military court to 12 years' imprisonment each.
Immediately after the kidnapping, the Swedish government began drafting an anti-terror law that came into force in 1973. This guaranteed the Swedish security police Säpo special powers and released them from informing the public about their actions.
During the Croatian War (1991-1995) the former hijackers and the liberated prisoners returned to the now independent Croatia .
literature
- Dan Hansén: Crisis and perspectives on policy change: Swedish counter-terrorism policymaking . Ed .: Swedish National Defense College. 2007, ISBN 978-91-85401-65-9 , Chapter 3 Croatian terrorism challenges security policy structures, p. 47–59 ( below [PDF]).
- Airplane hijacking: Croatians gave up . In: The time . No. 38 , September 22, 1972 ( zeit.de ).
Web links
- Airplane hijacking in Sweden. September 15, 2011, accessed December 15, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Spain Sentences Croatians In 1972 Hijacking of Jet . In: The New York Times . December 6, 1974, p. 11 ( nytimes.com ).