Aviation Safety Network
Database
< Home / Aviation Safety Network
Status
Date Thursday 5 July 1990
Time
Type Silhouette image of generic T154 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Tupolev Tu-154
Operator Aeroflot
Registration
MSN
Year of manufature
Crew Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7
Passengers Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 171
Total occupants Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 178
Aircraft damage None
Location Stockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)   Sweden
Phase En route
Nature Passenger - Scheduled
Departure Airport Leningrad-Pulkovo Airport (LED/ULLI)
Destination Airport Lviv-Snilow Airport (LWO/UKLL)
Narrative An Aeroflot Tupolev 154 with 171 passengers and seven crew members was hijacked to Sweden while on a domestic flight from Leningrad to Lvov. The hijacker was identified as a teenager, who threatened to blow up the aircraft with an explosive device he claimed was hidden in his luggage. He surrendered to Swedish authorities upon landing at Stockholm's Arlanda International Airport.
No weapons were found. On September 11, 1990 the hijacker was tried and convicted in Sweden on a hijacking charge and sentenced to four years imprisonment.

sources

Criminal Acts against Civil Aviation: 1990 / FAA

Safety recommendations