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D-FGOJ (cn 139) Straight from a Hollywood movie. A German hijacked the aircraft, after pretending to be a photographer shooting parachute jumps from inside the airplane. The aircraft took off from LPEV (Évora) with 3 parachuters, and right after, the hijacker diverted the aircraft using a pistol to LPCS (Tires). When the aircraft was landing at Tires, the parachuters jumped at very low altitude (not known if they were forced)... The aircraft landed with the engine shut down and skidded into a ditch, breaking the left wing and leaving again to the grass breaking the landing gear. The pilot managed to flee unhurt and the hijacker committed suicide (he's almost underneath the left wing).
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A visitor from Sweden posted Sat December 18, 2010:
The two parachutists were unhurt. The pilot saw then trying to exit, and rose to about 200 meters AGL before they jumped and immediately pulled their reserves. Source: "Svensk Fallskärmssport" (Swedish parachutist magazine)

A visitor from New Zealand posted Sun February 14, 2010:
I work at Pacific Aerospace, and remember this aircraft coming off the line (S/N XL139) just under 2 years ago, its a real shame to see one of our planes in this state, glad everyone was ok!

A visitor from Germany posted Sun February 14, 2010:
That sounds like a story from a bad action movie. Really strange. But the photo is close to the action. Thanks for sharing.

A visitor from Sweden posted Sun February 14, 2010:
It was a Swedish pilot :P

A visitor from Portugal posted Sat February 13, 2010:
Also another side note.
the hijackers car was parked on at LPEV, and packed with a time bomb. it exploded and got on fire

A visitor from United States posted Sat February 13, 2010:
What happened to the parachuters?

A visitor from Canada posted Sat February 13, 2010:
Ho my. That was desperate from the highjacker. I wonder what he intended.

A visitor from - posted Sat February 13, 2010:
Very very strange.

A visitor from Canada posted Sat February 13, 2010:
Actual hijacking or actual movie IM CONFUSED

A visitor from France posted Sat February 13, 2010:
Scary story. Hope nobody was hurt in this crash

A visitor from Portugal posted Fri February 12, 2010:
More information about this accident:

Few moments away from landing at Tires, the pilot managed to take the weapon away from the hijacker, but he went for the controls and tried to crash the aircraft. That's when the parachuters jumped. The aircraft landed with a struggle between the pilot and the terrorist underway, that's why it crash landed.

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