Hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 - Witness account

Title

Hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 - Witness account

Genre

News report; Interview; Technical

TX Date

Sep 1986

Year of production

1986

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Duration

00:08:36

Description

Series of related items. Injured survivor of the Pan Am 73 hijacking in Karachi on 05/09/86, Adeyal Metharu of Coventry on how he was shot and then escaped from the plane. He is interviewed in Karachi by IRN reporter Kevin Murphy, who asks him to repeat his answer to one particular question, and who goes on to record his report. Cataloguer’s note: Murphy gives Bahraini, Boomer Hussein as the leader of the hijackers, but other sources give Jordanian, Zaid Hassan Abd Latif Safarini.

Further information

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/5/newsid_4576000/4576765.stm

Contributors

Kevin Murphy; Adeyal Metharu

Keywords

Injuries; Terrorism; Pakistan; Aeroplanes; Karachi; Pan Am; Adeyal Metharu

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