📅 #OTD in 1996 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was hijacked midair by three young Ethiopians who demanded to be flown to Australia—a journey far beyond the plane’s fuel range. What followed was one of the most harrowing hijackings in aviation history, ending with a dramatic ditching in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros Islands. 📺 Check out the full episode on Mayday’s YouTube channel. 🔗 https://youtu.be/fqjiubj_pwQ | Mayday / Air Crash Investigation / Air Disasters

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A HAPPY BRANIFF INTERNATIONAL BIRTHDAY WISH FOR THOMAS ELMER BRANIFF Paul R. Braniff, Inc., and Braniff Airways, Inc., co-founder Thomas Elmer Braniff was born 138 years ago today. Today, Braniff Airways Foundation made its annual visit to Mr. Braniff and his family's gravesite at Calvary Hill Cemetery in Dallas, Texas, to place a Christmas wreath, from Gator Pond Wreaths in Glen Rose, Texas, along with two sprays of flowers for the side urns at the gravesite. Mr. Braniff, his wife, Bess Thurman

BRANIFF STILL FLYING TODAY BOEING 727-191 N300BN - Braniff International Boeing 727-191 registered as N300BN is taxiing at Minneapolis/St. Paul Wold-Chamberlain International Airport on June 28, 1973 (Photo 1). The Boeing Trijet was the eighth previously owned 727-100 to enter Braniff's fleet and was purchased previously owned from Frontier Airlines of Denver, Colorado, The aircraft is painted in the 1971 Glenn Geddis/Harper and George Red over Tan/Aztec Gold Two Tone Color Scheme with White Che

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