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Finnair Flight 405

1978 aircraft hijacking

Field	Value
name	Finnair Flight 405
image	Finnair flight 405 in Finland is hijacked on September 1978.jpeg
alt	Hostage being released from Finnair Flight 405.
caption	The aircraft during the hijacking
plane1_image	OH-LSB Finnair Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle 10B3 Super B (cropped).jpg
plane1_caption	OH-LSB, the aircraft involved in the hijacking, seen in 1980
occurrence_type	Hijacking
date
summary	Hijacking
aircraft_name	Tampere
aircraft_type	Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle
operator	Finnair
tail_number	OH-LSB
origin	Oulu Airport, Finland
destination	Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, Finland
occupants	49
passengers	44
crew	5
fatalities	0
survivors	49

Finnair Flight 405 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight between Oulu and Helsinki, Finland, that was hijacked on 30 September 1978. The Finnair operated Sud Aviation Caravelle with 44 passengers and 5 crew aboard was hijacked by an unemployed home building contractor. The aircraft shuttled between Helsinki, Amsterdam and Oulu, with passengers offloaded in exchange for ransom demands in cash. The aircraft finally returned to Oulu where the hijacker received more ransom demands and released the three crew hostages. He was then allowed home as part of the deal, but was arrested at his home the following day.

The 2013 Finnish drama film The Hijack That Went South, directed by Aleksi Mäkelä, has been made on the basis of the case.

Hijacking

Flight 405 was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by Finnair between Oulu Airport and Helsinki Airport. On 30 September 1978, the flight was serviced by a Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle.

Aarno Lamminparras, a 37-year-old unemployed home building contractor who had recently declared bankruptcy, boarded the aircraft in Oulu. Since Finnish airports did not perform security checks on domestic flights, he was able to carry a loaded Walther 7.65mm pistol aboard. At approximately 16:00, while en route to Helsinki, Lamminparras entered the cockpit and held the pilot at gunpoint. The aircraft continued to Helsinki, where 34 of the passengers were released.

Lamminparras subsequently forced the pilot to fly back to Oulu where the aircraft circled the airport for several hours before landing to refuel. A US$ 168,000 ransom payment from Finnair was also loaded onto the plane. The plane was then flown back to Helsinki, where Lamminparras demanded $38,000 from Helsingin Sanomat, Finland's largest newspaper. The newspaper paid approximately $18,000, and the remaining eleven passengers were freed.

The aircraft then flew to Amsterdam, where it landed at Schiphol Airport and got refueled. It then returned to Helsinki and received the remainder of the newspaper's ransom payment. The Caravelle then continued on to Oulu.

Lamminparras's final demands included four bottles of whiskey, a chauffeured limousine, and 24 hours alone at home with his wife. After police agreed to his demands, Lamminparras released the final three hostages, all of the crewmembers. He agreed to surrender peacefully Monday morning.

Oulu police stormed Lamminparras's house and arrested him on Sunday, 1 October. A police spokesman indicated that law enforcement officers had tapped the hijacker's home phone, and that he had made several phone calls that implied he did not plan to surrender peacefully as he had initially agreed. He was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment in 1979.{{cite news | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105110956/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/615273432.html?dids=615273432:615273432&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=Apr+10,+1979&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=Skyjacker+in+Finland+gets+7+years | url-status=dead | archive-date=5 November 2012

References

"Finnair Flight 405".
(2 October 1978). ["Post-Hijacking Party Cut Short in Finland"](https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Nt0VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8hEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1626,8309}}{{Dead link). Milwaukee Sentinel.
(2 October 1978). "Finnish police seize hijacker, recover ransom". Bangor Daily News.
(2 October 1978). "Police arrest hijacker after letting him go home to wife". The St. Petersburg Times.
(2 October 1978). "Finnish hijacker has day of rest". Sydney Morning Herald.
(2 October 1978). "Bizarre Hijacking Ends in Arrest". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
(3 October 1978). "Police seize hijacker in home raid". Sydney Morning Herald.

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