Hijackers Run Out of Fuel

Black Box Down

Society & Culture, Aviation, True Crime, Leisure, Documentary

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Three hijackers take over a Boeing 767 and try to fly to Australia. Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is taken over by hijackers claiming to have a bomb. They force the captain to fly to Australia even though there isnt enough fuel on board to make it. Find out what happens to this flight on this weeks episode of Black Box Down. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @BlackBoxDownPod. https://twitter.com/blackboxdownpod https://www.instagram.com/blackboxdownpod/ Sponsored by Raised by Wolves. Tune-in to the premiere of Raised by Wolves out now , only on HBO Max http://explorekepler22b.com/. Also sponsored by Gabi. Go to http://gabi.com/BLACKBOXDOWN to check your rate right now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	November 23, 1996.
0:05.8	Ethiopia Airlines Flight 961, aboing 767, is on a two-hour, 10-minute schedule flight
0:11.9	from Adisababa, Ethiopia to Nairobi, Kenya.
0:15.2	20 minutes after takeoff, the cockpit is stormed by three men claiming to have a bomb.
0:19.8	The men are wielding an axe and carrying several bottles of liquor.
0:23.0	They beat the first officer and remove the cockpit, then instruct the captain to fly
0:26.6	the plane to Australia.
0:28.2	The captain desperately tries to explain that the plane does not have enough fuel to make it to Australia,
0:32.6	but the hijackers refuse to listen.
0:34.6	The captain reluctantly flies the plane away from Africa out over the open Indian ocean.
0:39.6	What was the fate of this flight and all 175 people on board?
0:42.8	Find out on this episode of Black Box Down.
0:47.4	Hey everyone, welcome to Black Box Down. It's Gus and Chris and we're back again. Hi Chris.
0:51.6	Hello.
0:52.2	Here to do a little more podcasting about aviation incidents.
0:56.0	As always, I feel compelled to remind people to follow us on social media at Twitter and Instagram
1:01.2	at Black Box DownPod.
1:03.0	We post images and videos that we can't necessarily describe adequately through audio only.
1:08.0	There is a video I will be posting on social media in regards to this episode that I think you're going to want to see.
1:13.2	I watched it. It's pretty... Yeah, they're going to want to see it.
1:16.2	You're going to want to see this.
1:18.8	Again, bit of background. Neither Chris nor I are pilots.
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