Meet Ángela Cano, a Colombian actress who played a brave flight attendant on Netflix’s The Hijacking Of Flight 601, a new short series set in 1973, which depicts the true story of one of the longest aerial hijackings in Latin American history.
The retro-infused series centers around two armed assailants from Paraguay, played by Valentin Villafañe and Alian Devetac, who hijack an airliner and put the Colombian government under pressure by demanding the release of 50 political prisoners and a large ransom.
The series is based on the May 30, 1973, hijacking of SAM Colombia Flight HK-1274, where two Paraguayan soccer players — Francisco Solano López and Eusebio Borja — held the plane and its more than 80 passengers at gunpoint for a ransom of $200,000 and demanded that the Colombian government release dozens of guerrillas from prison.
