On 30 September 1978, a Finnish man hijacked a flight. His demands were four bottles of whisky, a chauffeured limousine and 24 hours alone with his wife

Sep 30, 2026

In a weird coincident to today's Flydubai flight hijack scare, 48 years ago another plane was hijacked by a Finnish man. But the hijacker of Finnair Flight 405 had weird demands. He managed to get ransom of about $200,000 in the 17 hour hijack drama during which the plane flew 4500 km journey via Helsinki and Amsterdam.

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