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    The hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 649 was an aircraft hijacking that took place between 22 and 23 February 1972. Eventually, all hostages on board the...
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    The hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 615 occurred on 29 October 1972 and was aimed at the liberation of the three surviving perpetrators of the Munich massacre...
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    Lufthansa Flight 181, a Boeing 737-230C jet airliner (reg. D-ABCE) named Landshut, was hijacked on 13 October 1977 by four militants of the Popular Front...
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  • the firebombing of a Pan Am aircraft and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight. Pan Am flight 110 was scheduled to depart from Rome, Italy and arrive in...
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    West German Lufthansa, the British BEA, and Swissair landed at Lydda Airport today minus their mail bags. The captain of the Swissair flight refused to...
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  • companies, including Global Load Control, Lufthansa Consulting, Lufthansa Flight Training, Lufthansa Systems and Lufthansa Technik. The company was founded as...
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  • hostages of hijacked Lufthansa Flight 649 in February 1972. At 10 p.m. the attackers arrived at the airport aboard an Air France flight from Rome. Dressed...
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    Operation Entebbe Israeli casualties of war List of hostage crises Lufthansa Flight 181 – a similar event the following year, involving a German airliner...
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    Sabena Flight 571 was a scheduled passenger flight from Brussels to Tel Aviv via Vienna, operated by the Belgian national airline, Sabena. On 8 May 1972...
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    September 1970. "On This Day, 23 February 1972: Hijackers surrender and free Lufthansa crew". BBC News. 23 February 1972. Retrieved 11 April 2011. It later emerged...
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