Pacific Aerospace 750XL
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- Airline
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- Aircraft
- Pacific Aerospace 750XL
- Registration
- D-FGOJ
- Location
- Cascais (- Tires) (LPCS)
- Country / region
- Portugal
- Date photographed
- February 12, 2010
- Photographer
- Andre Garcez - APEA Portugal
Photographer’s remark
D-FGOJ Straight from a Hollywood movie. A German hijacked the aircraft, after pretending to be a photographer shooting parachute jumps from inside the airplane. The aircraft took off from LPEV (Évora) with 3 parachuters, and right after, the hijacker diverted the aircraft using a pistol to LPCS (Tires). When the aircraft was landing at Tires, the parachuters jumped at very low altitude (not known if they were forced)... The aircraft landed with the engine shut down and skidded into a ditch, breaking the left wing and leaving again to the grass breaking the landing gear. The pilot managed to flee unhurt and the hijacker committed suicide (he's almost underneath the left wing).
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