| Date: | Saturday 30 May 1970 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Hawker Siddeley HS-748-245 Srs. 2A |
| Owner/operator: | Avianca |
| Registration: | HK-1408 |
| MSN: | 1657 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1968 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 42 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Unknown |
| Category: | Unlawful Interference |
| Location: | Havana-José Martí International Airport (HAV) -
 Cuba
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Bogotá-Eldorado Airport (BOG/SKBO) |
| Bucaramanga-Gomez Niño Airport |
Seven hijackers demanded to be taken to Cuba. The airplane flew to Havana with a refueling stop at Barranquilla.
Sources:
El Tiempo - 1 June 1970
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 23 August 1969 | HK-1408 | Avianca | 0 | Santiago Airport (SCU) | |
unk |
| Hijack | ||||||
| 5 July 1973 | HK-1408 | Avianca | 0 | Bucaramanga-Gomez Niño Airport |  |
w/o |
| Runway excursion | ||||||
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