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Posted by Ken Sanford
on 8/9/2008, 8:59 am, in reply to "RE PAA 7474-123 CLIPPER DEFENDER HIJACKED"
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Dear Frank,
First of all...my name is not "Kennie"...it is actually Kendall, but most people call me Ken. Second, the aircraft Clipper Defender N738PA which had a landing accident at Karachi on 4 August 1983, was written off. So it could not have been involved in the hijacking at Karachi on 5 September 1986. And third, I have checked at least five databases of airline crashes & incidents involving fatalities, and they all say that the aircraft involved in the hijacking was Clipper Empress of the Seas N656PA. These databases are all based on Pan Am company records, so they must be correct.
Ken
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: --Previous Message--
: On 5 September 1986, the Pan Am Boeing 747
: N656 was hijacked at Karachi, Pakistan by
: Arab terrorists. This aircraft had three
: names during its history, i.e. "Clipper
: Live Yankee", "Clipper Empress of
: the Seas" and "Clipper New
: Horizons". Does anyone know what the
: name was when the hijacking occurred?
:
:
: Hello
: There two Kennies Mark David Well as a
: veteran
: pilot for many years. Clipper Defender
: which
: Was written off at Karachi in Pakastain
: was the
: Same 747 Hijacked 5th September 1986. I
: was not
: Clipper impress of the sea's N656PA. I was
: the
: Captain of this flight with a machine gun
: to my
: head and my F/O Clark on that day. In
: front of
: us were these thugs with Grenades attached
: to
: there waste lines and other devices ready
: in
: that split second to blow us all up. I
: cannot
: forget the looks and last minutes of this
: Hijacking. It won't go away in my mind at
: all
: I am really suprised some of you who
: worked
: PAA carn't even get there info right. At
: least
: A pilot or captain has to responed. Good
: Day
:
: Regards
: Frank Hatsworth former paa pilot
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