Pakistan International Airlines Flight 712

On 3 December 1971, Jean Eugene Paul Kay, a French humanitarian activist, hijacked Pakistan International Airlines flight PK712 (a Boeing 720), at Orly Airport outside Paris, France. The flight was bound from London to Karachi via Paris, Rome and Cairo. Kay boarded the flight in Paris with five other passengers and took control of the aircraft on gunpoint. He demanded for 20 tons of medical supplies to be loaded onto the plane and sent to the refugees of Bangladesh Liberation War sheltered in India, and threatened to blow up the aircraft if the demands were not met. After a standoff of seven hours, Kay was arrested by two police personnel who boarded the aircraft in the guise of volunteers delivering the supplies he demanded.^[1][2]

In popular culture

1971 et Kay, a 2023 English-language Bangladeshi film, is based on this event.

See also

• Bangladesh Liberation War
• 1971 Bangladesh genocide

References