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Lufthansa Flight 181, ... a 35-year-old lawyer, ... The rescuers safely escorted all 87 passengers and 4 crew members off the Lufthansa Landshut aircraft. [1] [44] ...
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 (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.
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, ...
Lufthansa Flight 181; Lufthansa Flight 502; Lufthansa Flight 540; ... 1973 Rome airport attacks and hijacking; Lufthansa Flight 2904; L. 1929 Luft Hansa Junkers G 24 ...
Gabriele Dillmann worked as a flight attendant for Lufthansa. In 1977, she was serving on Lufthansa Flight 181 when it was hijacked by terrorists from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). During the ensuing protracted captivity, she was a pillar of support and hope for the other hostages and was lionized by the German press.
The total number of building raids amounted to 50, (44 of them being conducted British special forces which in total detained 47 people). In the early hours of 23 March 2006, as part of Operation Lightwater, the SAS carried out Operation Ney 3: their target was a house in Mishahda, 20 miles northwest of Baghdad, they found two men they were ...
13–18 October 1977: Lufthansa Flight 181 was hijacked by four Palestinian militants demanding the release of imprisoned Red Army Faction (RAF) members. After an odyssey through the Middle East, GSG 9 officers stormed the aircraft on the ground in Mogadishu, Somalia, freeing all 87 hostages and four of the five crew members. They killed three ...