A real hijacking incident linked by the Three Kingdoms. On March 31, 1970, more than 9,000 meters above Tokyo, Japan Airlines Flight 351 flew normally to a cruising altitude and prepared to land at Fukuoka Airport in an hour, which was originally just an ordinary short-distance flight in Japan, but it was not expected to be a tribulation, and none of the 122 passengers and flight attendants on the plane could prepare for the upcoming events.
At 7:33 a.m., when the plane flew south of Mount Fuji, a young Japanese man, Takamachi Tamiya, suddenly got up from his seat, walked to the head of the plane, announced that he was going to hijack the plane, and the words fell, but the passengers were not as frightened as they thought, and they did not even understand what the hijacking was. Apparently, the hijacking at that time was still a very new thing, and no one knew that it was a crime.
When Takashi Tamiya drew a Japanese samurai sword from his coat, the passengers realized the seriousness of the matter, at which point Tamiya Takaharu's other eight accomplices also stood up from their seats, these people looked like 20-year-old students, the youngest was even less than 18 years old, they were holding pistols and homemade bombs. They tried to break into the cab, and the driver immediately relayed the message to the ground, asking for help.
Since this was the first hijacking in Japan, neither the pilot nor the flight attendants had any defense measures, and the security checks at that time were not as easy as they are now, which led to the hijackers getting on the plane with ease.
Several hijackers drove the male passengers to the side of the window and tied them with ropes, while another group of hijackers broke through the door and took control of the two pilots. They were ordered to fly the plane to the Pyongyang airport in North Korea, but Flight 351 was only a short-haul flight in The country, and it was impossible to fly to North Korea with the fuel added, so the captain wanted to fly the plane to the original Fukuoka airport on the pretext of refueling and change the destination. Why are these hijackers asking to fly to North Korea? Who are they?
The nine hijackers were all members of the Japanese Red Army faction at the time, a Leftist organization in Japan that advocated the overthrow of the Japanese Imperial Family and the Japanese government, called for a world revolution, and long-term terrorist attacks. This time, they chose to fly to North Korea because they believed that North Korea was the closest country in terms of geography and hostile relations with imperialism.
Back in the story, the captain, citing lack of fuel, wanted to fly to Fukuoka for refueling, and seeing that the fuel of the plane was about to run out, several hijackers had no choice but to agree. But once the plane landed, it was not as "safe" for the hijackers in the air, and the Japanese police and self-defense forces were already ready for rescue and waiting for the opportunity.
At 8:59 the plane landed, and the Japanese police immediately demanded negotiations with the hijackers, while the 122 passengers and 7 crew members on the plane were anxiously awaiting the outcome of the negotiations. Police tried to take measures to leave the plane stranded at the airport, and the hijackers strongly demanded that the plane take off, and negotiations stalled. In the end, on the condition of taking off, Japan exchanged 23 hostages, and the hijackers released the women, the elderly, the sick and the disabled. In exchange for aircraft fuel, he took the remaining 106 hostages and prepared to fly to Pyongyang, North Korea.
Embarrassingly, the pilot of the plane had never been to Pyongyang to the north, and there was no navigation system on the plane, so Fukuoka Airport had to throw the pilot a map of the peninsula, let the two pilots navigate on their own, and continue to fly north along the Korean Peninsula at 1:59 p.m.
Due to time constraints, the map prepared by Fukuoka Airport is the basic road map copied from the textbook, with no air routes and no location of Pyongyang Airport. However, what is more exciting is that North Korea does not know that there are Japanese planes to fly over, the air over the military armistice zone is an absolute no-fly zone, Flight 351 is likely to be shot down if it is so hasty, and the passengers on the plane at that time are of different nationalities and identities, and even the senior executive of the American Coca-Cola Company, there is a Roman Catholic priest in New York, once the danger occurs, I am afraid that it will cause international contradictions.
Because Japan and North Korea did not have diplomatic relations at that time, the Japanese side could not get in touch with Pyongyang airport in advance, and it seemed that it had flown over the Korean mountains, but the driver still could not find the location of Pyongyang airport, and could only desperately contact the Pyongyang airport tower to inform the dilemma, if it was not clear, it might be a small life, but several calls were not answered. The pilot told the hijackers over and over again that they would be shot down at any time if they continued to fly. But the hijackers were determined to go to Pyongyang, and in the face of the threat of the hijackers, the pilots had to fly hard to the military truce zone.
Suddenly, two North Korean warplanes appeared from the clouds and opened fire on Flight 351, warning that the flight had entered North Korean airspace. Everyone was very nervous, but fortunately this was just a warning to fire, and after a while the artillery fire stopped. Just then, a voice came over the radio, shouting in English with a North Korean accent, This is Pyongyang (this is Pyongyang) response, response. When the Pyongyang airport was finally contacted, the pilot did his best to explain their situation, and the other party was also shocked, where they had encountered a hijacking incident.
After communication between the two sides, Flight 351 was allowed to land at Pyongyang Airport, and the hijackers were excited, but the passengers were impatient, and they did not know what was waiting for them. At 3:16 p.m., the plane made a safe landing at Pyongyang International Airport.
At the airport, a group of people dressed in North Korean police uniforms and official uniforms came to greet them, and a group of Ordinary North Koreans held aloft welcome signs and bouquets, and even a group of North Korean students sang North Korean songs to express a warm welcome to the hijackers.
At this time, the old man in the hijacking of the plane, Takato, suddenly stopped and did not get off the plane for a long time, what was he thinking? When was the Japanese government planning the rescue campaign?
It turned out that all this was a game of deception for the hijackers, and the plane did land at the airport, but it was not the Pyongyang airport.
When negotiations between the hijacker and the Japanese government at Fukuoka Airport in Japan failed, the Japanese government immediately launched a new rescue plan, and since the hijacker had to go to Pyongyang, let him go.
The Japanese government first contacted the South Korean government to prepare for Flight 351 to land at the fake "Pyongyang Airport", the South Korean side sent two fighters and pretended to be the North Korean side to warn Flight 351 of artillery fire, and the South Korean tower deliberately imitated it as Pyongyang Airport, sending an erroneous signal through radio that it was about to arrive at Pyongyang Airport.
Seoul airport with the fastest time to "renovate" the airport They replaced all the South Korean flags at the airport with the North Korean flag, removed everything related to South Korea, let people put on North Korean military uniforms and North Korean clothing, and also found a choir from a nearby school, singing North Korean songs, everything went in an orderly manner, most of the hijackers expressed satisfaction with the welcome, but there was one place that South Korea ignored.
After Flying to South Korea, Tamiya takamitsu did not see a photo of Kim Il-sung hanging, and the plane landed shorter than expected, and various signs made Tamiya suspect that this was not Pyongyang at all. The hijacker asked the man who had come to welcome him off the plane, "Is this Pyongyang?" The man replied: "The hijacker asked again: "Do you have a picture of Kim Il Sung?" How can such a big North Korea see every picture." The man was frightened and exhausted, and he was finished, and he did everything, but he still missed it. How can South Korea have pictures of North Korean leaders, and the hijackers conclude that these people are all in disguise, and this is not Pyongyang.
The distraught hijackers immediately demanded that the plane take off and threatened the hostages, and the Japanese government was forced to stop the rescue activities for the sake of the safety of the hostages, and all welcoming ceremonies were stopped. However, the aircraft once again activated the engine equipment that needed assistance, and the South Korean authorities refused to cooperate, and the two sides once again reached an impasse.
In the early morning of April 1, Shinjiro Yamamura, Japan's vice minister of transport, negotiated with the hijackers. The co-pilot of Flight 351 took the opportunity to write down the number of hijacks, locations and weapons on paper cups and threw them from the portholes, and the South Korean army prepared to force an attack with special forces, but the Japanese government refused. On April 3, Yamamura Shinjiro took the passengers hostage, the remaining passengers and flight attendants were released by the hijackers, and at 6 p.m., the plane took off again, this time actually crossing the 38th Parallel into North Korean airspace.
After flying for more than an hour and landing at the Meilin airfield used during the Korean war, the North Korean side demanded that the hijackers disarm, at this time, a jaw-dropping scene appeared, and people found that the Japanese knives, pistols and bombs used by the hijackers were all props and imitations, none of which were real guns and knives, and a hijacking case involving many countries was so absurd.
On April 4, North Korea returned the plane and three flight attendants, as well as Shinjiro Yamamura, to Japan.
This was the end of an absurd hijacking involving multinational rescues.