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The hijacking was a dramatic escalation in the so-called German Autumn of 1977, a period marked by a series of terrorist activities in West Germany. [3] It was directly linked to the dramatic kidnapping in Braunsfeld, Cologne, of Hanns Martin Schleyer, a prominent West German industrialist, by the Red Army Faction (RAF) "Commando Siegfried Hausner" group on 5 September 1977.
Lufthansa Flight 181 (1977) Jürgen Schumann (29 April 1940 – 16 October 1977) was a German commercial airline pilot and former German Air Force officer. He served as the flight captain of the Lufthansa plane Landshut during its hijacking on 13 October 1977.
The German Autumn included the kidnapping and murder of German industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer, the hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181, and the suicides of the imprisoned leading members of the first generation of the RAF. These events represented the final act of the RAF's so-called "Offensive 77".
In 1977, she participated in the hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181 and the murder of pilot Jürgen Schumann. Andrawes was the only one of the four hijackers to survive the GSG 9 storming of the plane in Mogadishu. [3] During the rescue operation, she was shot in the legs and lungs.
Lufthansa Flight 181; Lufthansa Flight 502; Lufthansa Flight 540; ... 1973 Rome airport attacks and hijacking; Lufthansa Flight 2904; D. 1940 Deutsche Lufthansa Ju 90 ...
Mogadischu is a 2008 German made-for-TV thriller film chronicling the events surrounding the hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181 by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in 1977. Directed by Roland Suso Richter , it was first shown on public broadcasting channel Das Erste on 30 November 2008.
Flight 181 may refer to: Listed chronologically. Lufthansa Flight 181, hijacked on 13 October 1977; Air India Flight 181, first leg of Air India Flight 182, destroyed by a bomb on 23 June 1985; EgyptAir Flight 181, hijacked on 29 March 2016
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