# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/patrick-arguello
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:16:34.705Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/patrick-arguello"
name: "Patrick Argüello"
slug: "patrick-arguello"
description: "Patricio José Argüello Ryan, commonly referred to simply as Patrick Argüello, was a Nicaraguan-American Marxist–Leninist militant. He was a member of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), and is best-known for his unsuccessful hijacking of El Al Flight 219 alongside Palestinian militant Leila Khaled on September 6, 1970. Flight 219 was an international civilian passenger flight from Tel Aviv to New York City that was hijacked by the duo shortly after it took off from a stopover in Amsterdam. Argüello and Khaled, acting on part of a larger series of hijackings by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), ultimately failed to take control of the plane due to heavy resistance from the passengers and security, who subdued the duo after pilot Uri Bar-Lev had thrown them off balance by putting the plane into a steep nosedive. Bar-Lev then made an emergency landing at Heathrow Airport in London, where Argüello was shot multiple times, later succumbing to his injuries. The FSLN had agreed to support the PFLP's hijackings in exchange for guerilla warfare training."
tagline: "Nicaraguan American terrorist (1943–1970)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943-03-30"
deathDate: "1970-09-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.12
  momentum:             2.647058823529412
  historical:           7.246404
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BE%2C_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BE"
    title: "Аргуэльо, Патрисио"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%A3%D8%B1%D8%BA%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88"
    title: "باتريك أرغيلو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88"
    title: "باتريك ارجويلو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D8%A2%D8%B1%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%84%D9%88"
    title: "پاتریک آرقوئلو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Arg%C3%BCello"
    title: "Patrick Argüello"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Arg%C3%BCello"
    title: "Patrick Argüello"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D8%A2%D8%B1%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%84%D9%88"
    title: "پاتریک آرگوئلو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Arg%C3%BCello"
    title: "Patrick Argüello"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2044166"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump