Southern Airways Flight 49 became one of aviation history\u2019s 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n
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