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Uli Derickson (née Patzelt, August 8, 1944 – February 18, 2005) was a German American flight attendant best known for her role in helping protect 152 passengers and crew members during the June 14, 1985, hijacking of TWA Flight 847 by militants linked with Hezbollah.
Mary Elizabeth Burke-Nash (December 31, 1935 – May 17, 2024) was an American flight attendant who was recognized as the world's longest-serving flight attendant in 2022 by Guinness World Records. She worked for various airlines in a career spanning over 65 years.
American Airlines Flight 444 was a scheduled American Airlines flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C.'s National Airport. On November 15, 1979, the Boeing 727 serving the flight was attacked by Ted Kaczynski (also known as the Unabomber), who sent a pipe bomb in the mail and set it to detonate at a certain altitude.
A German flight attendant serving caviar to guests in 1990. Throughout the '80s and into the '90s, more men started to become flight attendants. getty images - Getty Images
American Airlines Flight 4: William Lee, 48, of Brooklyn, New York, had to be restrained by a group of seven men, believed to have been members of an international rugby team, on the March 18 flight from Los Angeles to New York. In the last hour of the flight, he had reacted violently when a flight attendant refused to serve him another beer ...
An American veteran claimed she was left “humiliated” after being kicked off a flight from American airline Delta. A Delta flight attendant allegedly decided to boot the passenger out of the ...
A Boeing 777-222(ER) from United Airlines is taking off A Washington, D.C. man has been arrested for threatening flight attendants on a United Airlines plane traveling from Houston to New Jersey.
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.