German industrial leader and former Nazi SS officer Hanns Martin Schleyer was kidnapped on 5 September 1977, by the Red Army Faction, also known as Baader-Meinhof Gang, in Cologne, West Germany. It wa
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Lufthansa Flight 181
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Lufthansa Flight 181, a Boeing 737-200 jet airliner named Landshut, was hijacked on 13 October 1977 by four militants of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine while en route from Palma de
Kidnapping and murder of Hanns Martin Schleyer
…the West German government to release Andreas Baader and three other RAF members being held at the Stammheim Prison near the city of Stuttgart. Later, Lufthansa Flight 181 was hijacked and abducted to Somalia to support the terrorist demands. West German GSG9 forces liberated the hostages on 18 October 1977, this made the…
D-ABCE, the aircraft involved in the hijacking, pictured in 1975
Lufthansa Boeing 707 named Stuttgart landed at Cologne Bonn Airport on 18 October 1977, with State Minister Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski and the GSG 9 counter-terrorism assault team (pictured) onboard. The rescued hostages returned on a separate Lufthansa Boeing 707 aircraft named Köln. Photograph by Ludwig Wegmann.