The Hijacked Flight My Mother Didn’t Take
February 18, 2015: On December 11, 1969, a Korean Air Lines flight was on a brief domestic route within South Korea, when a North Korean agent hijacked the plane by …
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Family of Hijacked Plane Passenger Seek Permission to Visit NK
February 15, 2014: Family members of passengers and crew on Korean Air Lines flight KAL YS-11, which was hijacked and taken to North Korea in 1969, asked the Unification Ministry …
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Fate of Abducted Korean Airlines Passengers Still Unclear
July 5, 2010: As the second reunion of separated families during the Korea War, only Seong Kyeong-hee, who was a KAL flight attendant at that time, was verified as alive …
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Freed Koreans Retell Hijacking
February 16, 1970: Some of the passengers on the plane tore up their identification cards and threw them in the toilet. Others stayed seated, pale and breathless. All of them could …
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