Aerobasis Flight 625
 T901AB, the Aerobasis ABR-165 involved in the incident, at the Gravel Shores Regional Airport in May 1998. | |
| Hijacking | |
|---|---|
| Date | 11 June 1998 |
| Summary | Terrorist suicide hijacking |
| Site | Douglas-La Pryor, DLP |
| Total fatalities | 103 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Aerobasis ABR-165 |
| Operator | Aerobasis |
| Registration | T901AB |
| Flight origin | Gravel Shores Regional Airport, TKI, Torisakia |
| Destination | John Church Memorial Airport, ESL, Torisakia |
| Occupants | 83 (including hijacker) |
| Passengers | 77 (including hijacker) |
| Crew | 6 |
| Fatalities | 83 (including hijacker) |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Ground casualties | |
| Ground fatalities | 20 |
Aerobasis Flight 625 was a scheduled passenger flight of the regional airliner Aerobasis that was hijacked by an anti-government extremist on June 11, 1998. Hijacker Thomas David Neil deliberately crashed the plane into the National Office of Security Enforcement (NOSC) headquarters in Douglas-La Pryor, DLP. The plane only clipped the right wing of the NOSC building before crashing into a highway and into a hillside, killing all 83 people on board along with 15 inside the NOSC office and 5 on the ground. The flight was flying a scheduled afternoon flight from Gravel Shores Regional Airport in Gravel Shores, TKI to John Church Memorial Airport in Dardner, ESL.
25 minutes into the flight, an armed Neil attacked two crew members and forcibly stormed the cockpit, overpowering the captain and first officer. A former Torisakia Air Force pilot, Neil took full control of the aircraft. He turned off the plane's transponder and flight radio and began flying the plane back towards Gravel Shores. Air traffic controllers suspected that something had happened to the flight as communications ceased and the plane disappeared from radar (due to the transponder being switched off). Air traffic controllers initially believed that the flight had crashed given the hilly terrain in the area they were flying over when their signal went off. Air traffic control would not have any visual on the flight until it was over the Tatavian Mountains near the city of Douglas-La Pryor, by which point the flight was roughly 2 minutes out from crashing.
The aircraft crashed into the National Office of Security Enforcement headquarters at 5:34pm TST, clipping the top right portion of the building. The plane then slammed into the highway and slid into a hillside where it exploded. The crash caused a massive wildfire that extended nearly into Douglas-La Pryor proper and took 3 days to put out. Parts of the plane were found as far as Tongva Hills, which was roughly 15 miles from the crash site.
In total, 103 people were killed in the incident. It remains the deadliest terrorist attack in Torisakian history, and the only aviation terrorist attack to ever occur in Torisakia. The hijacking resulted in numerous changes to the Torisakia airline policies and procedures, and as such is colloquially referred to as the Day That Changed Torisakia Aviation.