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
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.
German Autumn
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The German Autumn refers to the period and political atmosphere in the Federal Republic of Germany during September and October 1977. This period was marked by a series of attacks by the Red Army Fact
Lufthansa Flight 181
…of eleven notorious Red Army Faction leaders held in West German prisons and two Palestinians held in Turkey. This event was part of the so-called German Autumn, intended to increase pressure on the West German government. The hijackers diverted the flight to several locations before ending in Mogadishu, Somalia…
Hanns Martin Schleyer †