Southern Airways Flight 49: Hijacked, Shot At, and Forced to Take Off Without Tires

Southern Airways Flight 49 became one of aviation history’s most extraordinary hijackings, sending a DC-9 across multiple countries during a tense 30-hour saga. Demonstrating its ruggedness, endurance, and reliability, the McDonnell-Douglas DC-9, one of the original short-range, low-capacity twinjets along with the Sud-Aviation SE.210 Caravelle and the British Aircraft Corporation BAC-111, was subjected to a […] The post Southern Airways Flight 49: Hijacked, Shot At, and Forced to Take Off Witho