TWA Flight 358

TWA Flight 358
Hijacking
Date11 June 1971 (1971-06-11)
SummaryHijacking
SiteChicago, Illinois, Airspace, and New York City, New York, United States
OperatorTrans World Airlines
Flight originO'Hare International Airport, Chicago
DestinationJohn F. Kennedy International Airport, New York
Fatalities1
Injuries1 (hijacker)

Trans World Airlines Flight 358 (TWA Flight 358) was a domestic flight traveling from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport to New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport. On June 11, 1971, a ticketless man named Gregory White boarded the Boeing 727 aircraft using force and demanded a machine gun, $75,000, and to be flown to North Vietnam. After murdering a passenger, White was soon apprehended at the John F. Kennedy International Airport by FBI agents, wounded, and arrested. It was the first attempted hijacking in the United States that resulted in a passenger fatality.