✸Hijacking of Lufthansa flight 615

A German flight from Damascus to Frankfurt via Beirut, Ankara and Munich, a Boeing 727 with 13 passengers and 7 crew on board. The aircraft was hijacked and diverted to Tripoli international airport in Tripoli, Libya, where the hijackers threatened to blow it up unless the three surviving perpetrators of the Munich operation were released. The West German authorities met the hijackers' demands and released Mohammed Safady, Jamal al-Gashey and Adnan al-Gashey, and all 20 passengers and crew survived.