The Hijacking of Flight 601


The Hijacking of Flight 601 is a Colombian television miniseries created by Pablo González and C. S. Prince, starring Mónica Lopera, Enrique Carriazo, Ángela Cano, Valentín Villafañe, and Alián Devetac. It premiered on April 10, 2024, on Netflix.
The series is based on the true events of SAM Colombia Flight 601, which occurred on May 30, 1973, and on the book Los condenados del aire by Italian journalist Massimo Di Ricco.

Synopsis

Two armed criminals from Paraguay hijack a commercial flight operated by Aerobolívar and threaten to kill the hostages one by one if the Colombian government does not pay a substantial ransom. Edilma Pérez, a flight attendant grappling with her own family issues, must take control of the situation with the help of her colleague, Bárbara.

Cast

Reception

A review in the Peruvian newspaper El Comercio states that, although the series takes many liberties compared to Di Ricco's literary work, the result is "a musical, gripping, and fundamentally entertaining product."
For Leonardo D'Espósito of La Nación, "the mixture of elements" present in the series "provides the viewer, once they have entered the game, the possibility that the shift in tone that often appears between this number of elements is hardly noticeable," concluding that the series is "many things at once, all of them entertaining."