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First abduction by Palestinian groups in which three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) took control of an El-Al plane en route from Rome to Athens. Diverted to Algiers, the negotiations lasted over 40 days. Both the kidnappers and the hostages were released, and Israel released 16 Palestinian prisoners in return. This was the first and only successful hijacking of an El Al flight.
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29th August 1969
Leila Chaled and another PFLP activist hijacked the aircraft on TWA 840 on August 29 en route from Rome to Tel Aviv . Contrary to what was expected, Yitzchak Rabin , at the time the Israeli ambassador to the United States, was not on board. The kidnappers directed the machine to Damascus . There they released all the hostages except for two Jewish passengers. The hijackers blew up the Boeing 707 on the ground ; the picture of the demolished cockpit went around the world. In December, Syria allowed Israeli passengers to travel to Athens and received 13 captured Syrians back in return. The aircraft was repaired with the nose of the 1968 crashed 707 of BOAC Flight 712.
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September 6-12, 1970
On September 6, armed men of the PFLP hijacked four planes that were on their way to New York City: The planes on flights TWA Flight 741 and Swissair Flight 100 land on a former military airfield at Dawson's Field near Zarqa . In the case of El Al Flight 219, a dive carried out by the pilots thwarted the kidnapping: Leila Chaled was overwhelmed and arrested after landing in London , her Nicaraguan -US companion Patrick Argüello was shot dead by a security guard on board. Two other PFLP members were refused entry to the El Al flight; so instead they hijacked the plane on Pan Am Flight 93 to Cairo. On September 9, a PFLP sympathizer hijacked a fifth aircraft on BOAC Flight 775 and forced it to land on Dawson's Field to release Leila Khaled. The hijackers released the non-Jewish of their hostages and blew up the planes on September 12th. King Hussein then imposed martial law, the beginning of Black September . Against US resistance, Britain released Leila Khaled in exchange for the remaining hostages; six other militant Palestinians were released from Swiss and German prisons.
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1971
A man who called himself Dan Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 727 and received $ 200,000 and four parachutes in exchange for the 30 passengers. He let the machine fly towards Mexico, but jumped during the flight with a parachute and ransom over the tailgate of the 727. The case was never resolved.
February 22-23, 1972
Arab terrorists of the PFLP under Wadi Haddad hijacked a Boeing 747 ("Baden-Württemberg") operated by Lufthansa on the flight from Tokyo to Frankfurt and forced it to land in Aden ( South Yemen ). The German federal government paid a ransom of five million US dollars for the release of the aircraft, crew and passengers.
Two Arab terrorists (PFLP) hijacked the Kiel , a Boeing 727 from Lufthansa, on its Damascus-Beirut-Ankara-Munich flight (LH 615) with 13 passengers and seven crew members on board. The German government released the three surviving hostage-takers who had been taken hostage at the Olympic Games in Munich in September 1972. The prisoners were handed over in Zagreb and later the hostages were released after the onward flight at the airport in Tripoli. The Israeli government and the press heavily criticized this “soft behavior” by the Germans under Federal Chancellor Brandt (SPD), who is facing new elections .
November 10, 1972
The aircraft on Southern Airways Flight 49 was hijacked, which after a ransom had finally landed in Havana, where the kidnappers were arrested. In the meantime there was a threat that the plane would crash into a nuclear reactor. This change in the hazard potential led to the introduction of the physical examination of all flight passengers in the USA on January 5, 1973.
17th December 1973
Hijacking of a Lufthansa (D-ABEY) B737-130 by five Arab terrorists (PFLP) from Rome-Fiumicino airport with the aim of freeing their comrades El-Arid and Khanduran, who were imprisoned for murder in Vienna . They had previously stormed the airfield and blown up a Pan Am Boeing 707-321B (N407PA Clipper Celestial ), killing a total of 32 people. After a hasty take-off, the plane first landed in Athens , where an Italian hostage was shot. The next day, the kidnappers forced the onward flight to Kuwait , where the captain, despite the refusal of a landing permit, was forced to make an emergency landing on the runway blocked by trucks due to a lack of fuel. The kidnappers surrendered to the local law enforcement agencies, but were released in Kuwait and subsequently escaped with no punishment.
15th September 1974
The aircraft on Air Vietnam Flight 706 was hijacked . The aircraft crashed while approaching a military airport and none of the passengers survived.
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1976
The Palestinian-Arab and German hijacking of an Air France airliner was put to an end at Entebbe Airport , Uganda , by Operation Entebbe : Israeli commandos attacked the building that housed the hijackers and hostages; they killed all Palestinian and German kidnappers as well as around twenty Ugandan soldiers and freed the 105 mostly Israeli hostages; three passengers and an Israeli soldier were killed.
Two Arab terrorists (PFLP) hijacked a plane in Cyprus . Egyptian commandos flew in uninvited to rescue the aircraft. Cypriot troops fought back and 15 Egyptians died in a 45-minute battle.
1981 to 1990
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1981
A Pakistan International Airlines jet was hijacked to Kabul , where a passenger was killed, and the plane flew on to Damascus . The hostages were finally released after 13 days when the Pakistani government agreed to release 50 political prisoners.
1983
Georgian hijackers tried to hijack an Aeroflot liner to Turkey. The Tbilisi aircraft hijacking fails. Three hijackers died when the aircraft was stormed by special forces, the remaining six were sentenced to death.
1984
Lebanese Shiites linked to the terrorist organization Hezbollah attacked a plane on a scheduled Kuwait Airways flight to Tehran . The plane was taken over by Iranian security forces.
1985
Lebanese Shiites hijacked the plane on Trans-World Airlines flight 847 with 153 passengers on board and diverted it from Athens to Beirut . The stalemate ended after Israel released 31 Lebanese prison inmates.
1985
Palestinian Arabs (PFLP) hijacked an Egypt Air plane to Malta . When Egyptian commandos stormed the plane, 59 people died.
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1986
22 people were killed when Pakistani security forces stormed a Pan Am plane with 400 passengers and crew on board near Karachi after a 16-hour siege.
1986
A China Airlines plane was hijacked by its Taiwanese pilot on the route from Singapore to Bangkok and flown to Guangzhou Baiyun Airport (old) , where it overflowed.
1988
In the attempted hijacking of a plane from Irkutsk , which was carried out by a large Soviet family, the liberation operation claimed nine lives.
Chechen terrorists hijacked a Russian plane carrying 178 passengers. It was kidnapped to Ankara . The hostages were eventually released in Grozny , the capital of Chechnya . The accomplice Shamil Basayev later became Prime Minister of Chechnya .
On August 14, on the flight from Tunis to Amsterdam, a Boeing 737-400 of the Dutch KLM with 139 passengers was hijacked to Düsseldorf. The next day, the GSG 9 stormed the machine and ended the kidnapping bloodlessly by overpowering the Egyptian kidnapper.
1994
Four Islamist GIA terrorists took over an Air France plane in Algiers on December 24th . She was flown to Marseille , where French commandos stormed her on December 26th and killed the kidnappers. The crew and 171 passengers survived.
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1996
The plane on Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was hijacked and crashed near the Comoros in the Indian Ocean after the hijackers crash-landed. Of the 175 people on board, 50 survived.
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1996
On the flight of an Aeroflot -Tupolew 154 from Malta to Lagos, a Nigerian armed with a drop knife tried to divert the flight to Germany or South Africa. Four men from the Austrian EKO Cobra who were on board for another assignment were able to end the hijacking of the aircraft bloodlessly in the air.
1999
Militant Islamist Kashmiri rebels attacked an Indian Airlines plane and diverted it to Kandahar . After a week-long stalemate, India agreed to release three captured Kashmiri militant rebels in exchange for the hostages.
July 23, 1999
All-Nippon-Airways-Flight 61 : A mentally unstable man hijacked a Boeing 747 with 517 people on board. In the course of the flight he killed the flight captain, took control of the aircraft and carried out dangerous flight maneuvers. The copilot was able to overpower the man and land the machine safely.
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May 25, 2000
Reginald Chua took control of a Philippine Airlines aircraft on the Davao City to Manila route. He stole valuables and tried to escape with a self-made parachute. The kidnapper died as a result of the fall.
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2001 to 2010
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March 15, 2001
A Tu-154 operated by Vnukovo Airlines on the route from Istanbul to Moscow was brought into their power by three Chechens, killing a stewardess. They requested to be taken to Saudi Arabia. The plane was stormed in Medina. A passenger and the leader of the kidnappers were killed during the attack.
A British Aerospace Jetstream 32EP (ZK-ECN) en route from Blenheim to Christchurch was abducted by Asha Ali Abdille, an asylum seeker from Somalia. The kidnapper asked to be taken to Australia and stabbed both pilots and a passenger. The plane landed in Christchurch. The kidnapper was taken into custody and later sentenced to nine years in prison.
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2011 to 2020
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17th February 2014
The Ethiopian Airlines Flight 702 was a flight of Ethiopian Airlines with a Boeing 767-300 with the registration ET-AMF that on 17 February 2014, the threat of violence on the flight from Addis Ababa to Rome Copilot Hailemedhin Abera Tegegn was kidnapped. The plane then flew past Rome to Geneva . His goal was to apply for political asylum in Switzerland. The copilot was arrested after landing without resistance after climbing out of the cockpit window. After deviating from the flight course, the aircraft was accompanied by two Eurofighters from Aeronautica Militare .
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April 1, 2014
In a Lufthansa Airbus A321-231 on the way to Budapest, a deportation prisoner from Kosovo threatened a stewardess with a razor blade about 10 minutes after taking off from Munich. The pilots turned back. After landing, the passengers and the rest of the cabin crew left the aircraft, while the kidnapper and the threatened stewardess remained in the cabin. An interpreter managed to calm the situation down. The perpetrator released the stewardess and turned himself in to the police.
^ Brendan I. Koerner: Skyjacker of the Day. Entry 10: “We're going to bomb Oak Ridge”: The hijacking that gave us airport security. In: slate.com. June 19, 2013, accessed August 2, 2013 .
^ Rome hijacking . In: FLIGHT International of December 27, 1973 ( Online . At flightglobal.com, accessed on February 10, 2017 ( PDF , approx. 1.39 MB))
↑ Peter Huemer in an article in the ORF television magazine Teleobjektiv from November 14, 1974
