The Hijacking of Flight 601
| The Hijacking of Flight 601 | |
|---|---|
| Secuestro del vuelo 601 | |
| Genre | Thriller Drama |
| Created by | Pablo González C. S. Prince |
| Based on | Los condenados del aire by Massimo Di Ricco |
| Starring | Mónica Lopera Enrique Carriazo Ángela Cano Valentín Villafañe Alián Devetac |
| Country of origin | Colombia |
| Original language | Spanish |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Original release | |
| Release | April 10 – April 10, 2024 |
The Hijacking of Flight 601 (Secuestro del vuelo 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.[1] 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,[2][3] and on the book Los condenados del aire (The Condemned of the Air) by Italian journalist Massimo Di Ricco.[4]
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
- Mónica Lopera as Edilma "Edie" Pérez
- Ángela Cano as María Eugenia "Bárbara" Gallo
- Christian Tappan as Commander Richard Wilches
- Valentín Villafañe as Eusebio "Ulises" Borja
- Alián Devetac as Francisco "Toro" Solano
- Enrique Carriazo as Engineer Álvaro Aristides "Pirateque"
- Marcela Benjumea as Manchola Sáenz
- Johan Zumaqué as Co-pilot Guillermo Luis Lequerica
- Ilenia Antonini as Marisol
- Carlos Manuel Vesga as Francisco "El Flaco" Marulanda
- Fernando Arévalo as Manuel Ordoñez
- Cristina Restrepo as Elvira
- Laura Rodríguez as Amparo
- Mario Ruiz as Jorge Enrique
- Patricia Ércole as Marta Lucía
- Rafael Novoa as Commander Cabrera
- Juan Pablo Raba as Checho
- Ernesto Benjumea as Vice Minister Julio César Esguerra
- Matías Rodríguez as William Pérez
- Jerónimo Díaz Grimaldo as Boris Pérez
- Salvador Escalante as Roberto Pérez
- Juan Cruz as Eliecer
- Natalia Giraldo as Rocío
- Alejandra Chamorro as Vanessa
- Lucía Bedoya as a passenger
Episodes
| No. | Title | Created by | Original release date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Que el cielo te juzgue" (May Heaven Judge You) |
Pablo González and Camilo Salazar Prince | April 10, 2024 |
| 2 | "Con la muerte en los tacones" (Death on Her Heels) |
Pablo González and Camilo Salazar Prince | April 10, 2024 |
| 3 | "Noche de perros" (A Night of Dogs) |
Pablo González and Camilo Salazar Prince | April 10, 2024 |
| 4 | "Los condenados de la tierra" (The Wretched of the Earth) |
Pablo González and Camilo Salazar Prince | April 10, 2024 |
| 5 | "Odisea aeroespacial" (Aerospace Odyssey) |
Pablo González and Camilo Salazar Prince | April 10, 2024 |
| 6 | "La mujer que sabía demasiado" (The Woman Who Knew Too Much) |
Pablo González and Camilo Salazar Prince | April 10, 2024 |
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."[5]
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."[6]
References
- ^ "Lista de actores y personajes de "Secuestro del vuelo 601": quién es quién en la serie de Netflix" [List of actors and characters of "The Hijacking of Flight 601": who is who in the Netflix series]. El Comercio (in Spanish). 2024-05-06. Retrieved 2024-05-06.
- ^ "Así cubrió EL TIEMPO el secuestro del vuelo 601, el caso de la serie de moda en Netflix" [How EL TIEMPO covered the hijacking of flight 601, the case of the trendy series on Netflix]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). 2024-04-16. Retrieved 2024-05-06.
- ^ Esquivel, Karen (2024-04-21). "La historia real del secuestro del vuelo 601: esto fue lo qué pasó" [The true story of the hijacking of flight 601: this is what happened]. CNN (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-05-06.
- ^ "Ella es Edilma Pérez, la de carne y hueso: así luce la azafata de 'Secuestro del vuelo 601′" [This is Edilma Pérez, in the flesh: this is what the flight attendant from ‘The Hijacking of Flight 601’ looks like]. Infobae (in Spanish). 2024-04-26. Retrieved 2024-05-06.
- ^ ""Secuestro del vuelo 601″: un atrapante y musical relato sobre el horror" ["The Hijacking of Flight 601": a gripping and musical tale of horror]. El Comercio (in Spanish). 2024-04-25. ISSN 1605-3052. Retrieved 2024-05-06.
- ^ "El secuestro del vuelo 601: la miniserie éxito de Netflix es muchas cosas a la vez, todas ellas entretenidas" [The Hijacking of Flight 601: the hit Netflix miniseries is many things at once, all of them entertaining]. La Nación (in Spanish). 2024-04-24. Retrieved 2024-05-06.