Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 710
.jpg) A PSA Boeing 737-200 in contemporary livery | |
| Incident summary | |
|---|---|
| Date | 5 July 1972 |
| Summary | Hijacking |
| Site | over California |
| Passengers | 77 |
| Crew | 7 |
| Fatalities | 3 |
| Injuries (non-fatal) | 2 |
| Survivors | 81 |
| Aircraft type | Boeing 737-200 |
| Operator | Pacific Southwest Airlines |
| Flight origin | Sacramento Airport |
| Stopover | San Francisco International Airport |
| Destination | Los Angeles International Airport |
Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 710 was a Boeing 737-200 flight from Sacramento, California to Los Angeles that was hijacked by Dimitr Alexiev and Michael Azmanoff, two Bulgarian immigrants, on July 5, 1972 shortly after take-off from Sacramento Airport. The hijackers demanded $800,000, two parachutes and to be taken to the Soviet Union. The hijacking ended on the runway at San Francisco International Airport when agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation stormed the plane killing both hijackers. Passenger E. H. Stanley Carter, a sixty-six-year-old retired railroad conductor from Montreal, was also killed; passengers Leo R. Gormley of Los Angeles and actor Victor Sen Yung were wounded and survived. These are the first passengers killed or wounded in a hijacking in the United States.