Japan Air Lines Flight 351
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Japan Air Lines Flight 351 was hijacked by nine members of the Japanese Communist League-Red Army Faction （a predecessor of the Japanese Red Army） on March 31, 1970,
while flying from Tokyo to Fukuoka, in an incident usually referred to in Japanese as the Yodogo Hijacking Incident （よど号ハイジャック事件, Yodogō Haijakku Jiken）.
Approximately 20 minutes after takeoff, a young man by the name of Takamaro Tamiya got up from his seat and drew a katana, stating his intent to hijack the plane, and instructed the other hijackers to draw their weapons.
The hijackers then took 129 people （122 passengers and seven crew members） hostage and commanded the pilots to fly the plane to Havana, Cuba, where they intended to receive training by communist military groups.
The hijackers were then informed that the aircraft, a Boeing 727, was not capable of making such a journey, due to the plane's inability to hold the necessary amount of fuel.
Upon learning of this, the hijackers insisted that the plane be diverted to Pyongyang, North Korea, after stopping to refuel in Fukuoka.
Upon arrival at Fukuoka, the police convinced the hijackers to release the majority of their hostages, and the pilots were given a map of the Korean peninsula.
Attached to the map was a note which instructed the pilots to tune their radios to a specific frequency.
The air traffic controllers, whom were aware of the situation, intentionally gave the pilots incorrect directions in an effort to have them land at Gimpo Airport in Seoul, South Korea, where they had disguised the airport as being North Korean.
Despite this, the...