This is one of those cases to date are held in the greatest mystery is only known that the plane was the subject of a kidnapping attempt that for some reason went wrong.
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100 passengers and crew lost their lives, and is actually little is known about who the perpetrators of the kidnapping, is the story of Flight 653 on Malaysian Airlines System.
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is the December 4 1977, we are at the Penang International Airport in Bayan Lepas, Malaysia., on-ramps is a plane at short and medium, it is the ever popular Boeing 737, in this case was a 737-2H6 of Malaysian Airlines System.
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His flight was enrolled 9M-MBD, and lead the numbered flight 653, whose final destination was the Paya Lebar International Airport, which in turn is military air base in Singapore and had a scale that was the Subang International Airport ( today Airport Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah) in Subang near the capital Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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93 passengers to be served by the 5-board surcharge on cockpit are the captain GK Ganjoor and a first officer who is unaware of his identity, both reviewed the list prior to departure and upon completion of this formality pass tracks waiting to be allowed to take off, they are assigned runway 22 to go and 19:
21 hours out to cover local route to his first and only stop before their final destination. .
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The rise is positive according to the standards used, the appliance has reached cruising altitude and during the first stage of the flight everything is normal, the flight attendants deal with passengers, all there is mere routine communications between pilots and air traffic control are the same as ever.
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In Subang Airport is awaiting the arrival of flight 653 at about 20:00 local time, in fact Ganjoor captain was taking his position and asked for authorization of descent maneuvers were on final approach and landing, in section passengers are expected the usual movement of people descending on a scheduled stopover.
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And then it happened, was the 19:54, the plane was at about 1200 meters in full descent to the runway 33 Subang airport where they had to come, someone entered the cockpit to the surprise of the pilots, Ganjoor Captain then informed the control tower and gives this message:
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Ganjoor: We have an unknown hijacker on board ...
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tower in Subang, the message gets a surprise, but quickly sets in motion a plan of attack and rescue victims by local authorities, and that at the time we speak of aerial piracy was common, several cases had already happened in other parts of the world and Asia could not be the exception, should do something before things got worse, so Gajoor instruct the captain to maintain the pattern of decline agreed and did not cause the alleged abductor did not know case would be more than one.
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went by when suddenly after several minutes of silence, the captain Gajoor mentioned this:
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Gajoor: Subang, we now proceed to Singapore (he implied that it would continue to Singapore) ...
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was the last time you reported by voice with someone of the plane, it was obvious that this was a kidnapping and the Malaysian authorities called their counterparts in Singapore to mention that a plane had been hijacked Malaysian and could its air space at any time, in Singapore also prepared to deal with him or the kidnappers.
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But she did arrive, the unit was gone, at 20:15 all communication was lost with flight 653 ...
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little over 20 minutes of lost communication with the plane the inhabitants of the village of Tanjung Kupang heard a loud bang, followed by an attractive glow, and went out to see what someone called the local police, officers
ll egaron and thus knew that Flight 653 had crashed in a swamp near the village, the 100 people aboard were killed. .
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And that it could have political repercussions, for passengers traveling between the Minister of Agriculture of Malaysia Haji Ali Ahmad, the head of the Department of Public Works Khalid Mahfuz Malaysia and the Ambassador of Cuba in Japan Mario Garcia who was traveling with his wife to Singapore to take a connecting flight to Tokyo.
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local and national authorities dealt with the situation, and the first suspects were a fraction of the Japanese Red Army, but the days first and then the months went by and no one could prove that it was they who attempted against Flight 653, by Moreover the Red Army not claimed any such attack.
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The collection of human remains at the crash site was the most painful, the bodies were badly mangled to the point that we did not find any full body, many did not have heads, others were only torsos, we tried to make identifications by X-ray and the time it was to know if anything he or the alleged hijackers opened fire on the pilots before the crash but to no avail, there was no hard evidence because of the fire that consumed the plane, and all finished bodies found in mass grave for sorrow of those who were his relatives.
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Speculation about what happened in the cockpit were mainly two, it is believed that those who ordered the kidnapping at any time a gun went off killing the pilot and then make the plane crash on purpose, the second theory was that the unit ran out of fuel, but that theory was unlikely given that was just the first level, then we are left with the fact that the pilots be murdered, but why?, there was no radio communication, or any type of message to justify this atrocity.
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And since that was sunk in the great mystery, you never knew what moved
the abductor or abductors to take that flight in particular, no one claimed the incident, the suspects were dropped in the end the case was filed as unsolved case, you could not do more.
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For that robbery was his first and also his first air plane crash fatal, the worst to date is not known if anything was some compensation for relatives of victims of robbery, but it is known that four days of the accident had built a monument to commemorate those who died at because of something you still do not know what was or why, is in Jalan Kebun The, there stands a wall of black with the names of the 100 victims of that fateful December 4, 1977, the nationalities of those who traveled that day were as follows:
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73, Malaysia.
--- 5 of England.
--- 4 of the then Federal Republic of Germany. --- 3
Australia. --- 3
India.
--- 3, Indonesia. --- 2
Cuba.
Afghanistan --- 1. --- 1
Canada. --- 1
Japan. --- 1
Greece. Singapore
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Thailand.
U.S. --- 1.
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a dirge for all of them, rest in peace ...
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--- Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia in English and English versions.
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AirDisaster. Com
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Aviation Safety Network.
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Pictures:
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Avion Boeing 737-2H6 Malaysia Airlines 9M-MBD System enrollment damaged, taken from Aviation Safety Network.
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wreckage, a woman mourning her lost family, Malaysian soldiers with body bags recovered, taken from My Golden Sky.
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Monument to the victims, taken from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia English version.
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