Hijackings and Threats
- In December 2010, Vietnamese police arrested Nguyen Bang Viet, a former Vietnam Airlines employee, for allegedly sending text messages to other employees about a bomb planted in October 2010 on a Hanoi–Siem Reap flight. This prompted VNA to cancel the flight.
- 4 September 1992: Ly Tong, a former pilot in the South Vietnamese air force hijacked an Airbus A310-300 operating as Flight VN850 with 167 occupants on board en route from Bangkok to Ho Chi Minh City. He then dropped anti-communist leaflets over Ho Chi Minh City before parachuting out. Vietnamese security forces later arrested him on the ground. The aircraft landed safely, and no one on board was injured. The hijacker was released from a Hanoi prison in 1998.
- 28 October 1977: Four armed Vietnamese hijackers seeking asylum in Singapore seized a Douglas DC-3 en route from Ho Chi Minh City to Phu Quoc Island with 32 passengers on board. Two of the six crew members were killed and a third was wounded before the aircraft was forced to land in Singapore. The hijackers surrendered after negotiating with Singapore officials for five hours.
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