Japan Air Lines Flight 351

Japan Air Lines Flight 351 was a scheduled passenger flight from Tokyo Haneda Airport to Fukuoka that was hijacked by members of the Red Army Faction of the Japan Communist League on March 31, 1970, in an incident usually referred to in Japanese as the Yodo Hijacking Incident (よど号ハイジャック事件, Yodo-gō Haijakku Jiken), after the aircraft's name Yodo (meaning "still water"). == Background == In 1966, the New Left student organization known as the Communist League, defunct since 1960, reformed, becoming known as the "Second Bund" (第二次ブント, Dainiji Bunto).

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