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(Redirected from Oulu Aircraft Hijacking) Aircraft hijacking on 30 September 1978 For other flights numbered 405, see Flight 405.

Finnair Flight 405
A Finnair Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle similar to the hijacked aircraft.A Finnair Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle similar to the hijacked aircraft.
Hijacking
Date30 September 1978
SummaryHijacking
Aircraft
Aircraft typeSud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle
OperatorFinnair
RegistrationOH-LSB
Flight originOulu Airport, Finland
DestinationHelsinki-Vantaa Airport, Finland
Passengers44
Crew5
Fatalities0
Injuries0
Survivors49

Finnair Flight 405 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight between Oulu and Helsinki, Finland, that was hijacked on 30 September 1978. The Finnair operated Sud Aviation Caravelle with 44 passengers and 5 crew aboard was hijacked by an unemployed home building contractor. After forcing the pilot to fly to Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Helsinki, the hijacker received his ransom demands and released his hostages. He was arrested at his home the following day.

The 2013 Finnish drama film The Hijack That Went South, directed by Aleksi Mäkelä, has been made on the basis of the case.

Hijacking

Flight 405 was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by Finnair between Oulu Airport and Helsinki Airport. On 30 September 1978, the flight was serviced by a Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle.

Aarno Lamminparras, a 37-year-old unemployed home building contractor who had recently declared bankruptcy, boarded the aircraft in Oulu. Since Finnish airports did not perform security checks on domestic flights, he was able to carry a loaded Walther 7.65mm pistol aboard. At approximately 16:00, while en route to Helsinki, Lamminparras entered the cockpit and held the pilot at gunpoint. The aircraft continued to Helsinki, where 34 of the passengers were released.

Lamminparras subsequently forced the pilot to fly back to Oulu where the aircraft circled the airport for several hours before landing to refuel. A US$ 168,000 ransom payment from Finnair was also loaded onto the plane. The plane was then flown back to Helsinki, where Lamminparras demanded $38,000 from Helsingin Sanomat, Finland's largest newspaper. The newspaper paid approximately $18,000, and the remaining eleven passengers were freed.

The aircraft then flew to Amsterdam, where it landed at Schiphol Airport and got refueled. It then returned to Helsinki and received the remainder of the newspaper's ransom payment. The Caravelle then continued on to Oulu.

Lamminparras's final demands included four bottles of whiskey, a chauffeured limousine, and 24 hours alone at home with his wife. After police agreed to his demands, Lamminparras released the final three hostages, all of them crewmembers. He agreed to surrender peacefully Monday morning.

Oulu police stormed Lamminparras's house and arrested him on Sunday, 1 October. A police spokesman indicated that law enforcement officers had tapped the hijacker's home phone, and that he had made several phone calls that implied he did not plan to surrender peacefully as he had initially agreed. He was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment in 1979.

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References

  1. Incident description for Finnair Flight 405 at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 28 January 2011.
  2. ^ "Post-Hijacking Party Cut Short in Finland" (PDF). Milwaukee Sentinel. Milwaukee, WI. UPI. 2 October 1978. p. 1. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
  3. ^ "Police arrest hijacker after letting him go home to wife" (PDF). The St. Petersburg Times. St. Petersburg, FL. AP, UPI. 2 October 1978. p. 1. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
  4. ^ "Finnish police seize hijacker, recover ransom" (PDF). Bangor Daily News. Bangor, Maine. UPI. 2 October 1978. p. 12. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
  5. "Finnish hijacker has day of rest" (PDF). Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney, Australia. AAP, Reuters, AP. 2 October 1978. p. 5. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
  6. "Bizarre Hijacking Ends in Arrest" (PDF). Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Pittsburgh, PA. AP. 2 October 1978. p. 8. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
  7. "Police seize hijacker in home raid" (PDF). Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney, AUstralia. AAP. 3 October 1978. p. 5. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
  8. "Skyjacker in Finland gets 7 years". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, IL. 10 April 1979. p. 12. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2011. (subscription required) - Clipping at Newspapers.com.
Aviation accidents and incidents in 1978 (1978)
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