Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 130 was an aircraft hijacking which took place in Sweden and subsequently in Spain on 15 and 16 September 1972.

The ambassador of Yugoslavia stated inaccurately that they were part of the Ustaše, a prejudicial term which has since stuck in the Swedish coverage and debate.

They supplemented their income through extorting money from fellow Croatians in Gothenburg, claiming that anyone not paying them was an enemy of Croatia.

They pointed their guns at a flight attendant and demanded that the aircraft divert to Bulltofta Airport in Malmö.

[6] The incident was largely met with disbelief and laughter from the passengers and some of the flight attendants, as they thought it was an exercise.

The hijackers calmly answered questions regarding the action and stated that they intended to have the ambassador's murderer released.

They then started making references to the Munich massacre ten days earlier and hinted that a similar situation could arise in the aircraft.

They made it clear that their intention was to detonate a bomb they had with them if the authorities did not meet their demands within eight hours.

[8] The police were informed of the hijacking at 16:55 and immediately scrambled troops to Bulltofta to deal with the situation.

He was vacationing at his cabin in Ystad Municipality, located only kilometers from the airport, and was able to quickly arrive at the scene.

There were at the time rumors that the terrorists were Serbs who had the intention of murdering the Croatians once they were on board the aircraft.

However, the issue was complicated around midnight when the Bulltofta base of operations received a threat by telefax which threatened to kill Palme, Geijer and two other ministers if the prisoners were handed over.

As the only prisoner, Barešić stated at 02:12 that he was interested in letting the transaction take place without talking to the hijackers.

Under command of Superintendent Lewijn, 30 passengers would be released after which two prisoners would be sent by police escort to the aircraft and let on board.

This would be done three times until all passengers were safe and all willing prisoners aboard, with the cabin crew being let off in the last wave.

[9] The hijackers responded to the offer by demanding that all passengers be on board until all the prisoners were; otherwise the aircraft would be blown up.

Negotiations followed, whereby the police argued that acquiring such amounts of cash would be difficult in the middle of the night, and the hijackers reduced their demand to half a million.

At the time the police were mostly concerned about the threat of the aircraft flying to a foreign location rather than it being blown up in Malmö.

An English-speaking technician, a Norwegian SAS employee and the airport's director were let aboard the aircraft, where they negotiated the release of the crew.

[11] When the aircraft was stormed and the hijackers arrested, the Spanish military police took care of the two bags of money.

With the Munich massacre having taken place ten days earlier, there was a relief that the hijacking had ended without casualties.

However, the Swedish authorities received harsh criticism from the Government of Yugoslavia for having met the demands of the hijackers.

[3] A parliamentary commission, led by Carl Lidbom, was subsequently appointed to look into Swedish terror legislation.

It proposed the need for easing deportation of people suspected of belonging to terrorist groups or partaking in politically motivated violence.

[2] A preliminary debate took place in Parliament on 11 December, and a proposal for legislation was presented by the cabinet on 19 January 1973.

The Terrorism Act gave increased rights for the police and the Swedish Security Service to deport foreigners and undercover surveillance of suspects.