Shortly before landing in Beruit, air traffic control had refused to let them land. “We sat with that boy for six hours and had seen him go from practically a raving maniac to a fairly complacent and intelligent young man with a sense of humour, and then these idiots … irresponsibly made up their own minds about how to handle this boy on the basis of no information, and the good faith we had built up for almost six hours was completely destroyed.”. The captured crew would later describe their hijacker as polite and respectful, despite the situation. The city of Los Angeles was terrorized by the night stalker. Ironically, early on Mohammed felt a special connection with Uli. [1], For the later bombing of TWA Flight 840, see, Walter Enders, Todd Sandler. It is believed he is residing in Lebanon. Minichiello was tried and found guilty for his crime in Italian airspace only. The “Party of Allah” is a Lebanese based Shia Islamist political party. Along the way, Minichiello continued chatting with the captive crew. National Security Adviser Robert C. McFarlane was informed that Berri ″had in his hands the ability to end the hijacking.″. They had their military IDs and were nervous about handing them over. Ali Atwa was released by the Greek officials. Hasan approached the lead flight attendant, Uli Derickson, looked her in the eyes and kicked her to the ground. Finally, the transports stopped at an apartment building, then drove down into a basement garage. The flight engineer opened the cockpit door. Fifty years ago, plane hijackings weren’t uncommon. Uli continued to keep her cool and protect the passengers when she felt she could. In August 1969, leaders in the Palestinian left-wing organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) learned that Yitzhak Rabin, then Israeli Ambassador to the United States, was scheduled to be aboard a Trans World Airlines (TWA) Rome-Athens-Tel Aviv flight. The following day, the terrorists released Greek singer Demis Roussos, his American secretary, Pamela Smith, and Greek-American, Arthur Targon Tsidis. During the second week of April, a Shiite girl drove a car bomb into a “Tzahal” (Israel Defense Force) convoy, and the following day, a soldier was killed by a landmine. It rattled the captured crew, but the plane could still fly. The political economy of terrorism. Slipping in and out of consciousness, Kurt heard the terrorists scream, “One American must die.’’. Israel withdrew from the Bekaa Valley on April 24th, and from Tyre on the 29th, but continued to occupy a security zone in Southern Lebanon. To convert the entire world to Islam. Yet at the beginning of that summer, another major world event was making headline news. At a news conference, President Reagan stated that any retaliation ″would probably be sentencing several Americans to death.″ During that conference, Reagan scrutinized the Greek government of weak airport security. The captain’s radio transmissions were broadcast around the world. The captives were ordered into a barren 20-by-20-foot underground room. This was part of the agreement for the release of Ali Atwa who was arrested at the Athens airport. Minichiello bid them goodbye and apologised to them for “all this trouble.”, Minichiello after his release from jail.Source:Alamy. The M16 gun and other materials used by Minichiello and seized during his arrest in Rome. Uli pleaded with the cockpit crew to open the door. Captain Testrake argued with air traffic control until they relented. He liked the fact that she spoke German and probably assumed that she was German. The site in the countryside outside Rome where Minichiello was arrested. And since the United States of America was the main ally of Israel, Americans were the target. But the first they knew for sure they were America’s latest crop of hijack victims was when the captain’s voice came over the PA system and said: “We have a very nervous young man up here and we’re going to take him wherever he wants to go.”. But things got tense at New York’s John F Kennedy Airport. September 13, 1948: A T.A.E. In the dialogue exchange, she realized that Mohammed spoke German. Rabin was not aboard, but American diplomat Thomas D. Boyatt was. We understand that Israel is holding as hostage a number of Lebanese people who undoubtedly have as equal a right and as strong a desire to go home as we do.” pleaded Allyn Conwell. On June 16th a letter signed by 29 passengers appealed to President Ronald Reagan to refrain from any direct military action on their behalf. The door of the cockpit opened and Minichiello pointed the rifle at the pilots, captain Donald Cook and first officer Wenzel Williams. All times AEDT (GMT +11). He’d been saving up for a plane ticket to visit his father, who was back in Italy and dying from cancer. Minichiello faces the media after being questioned by police in Rome.Source:Alamy, Passengers had certainly noticed Ms Delmonico being led up the aisle to the cockpit by Minichiello. Another 1,800 Shi’as were taken as prisoners. “In a way, I got a little closure, saw a different viewpoint,” she said. We must, I repeat, we must land at Beirut. The group was then funded by donations from the Muslim community, Islamic diamond dealers and Lebanese businessmen. p.44, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, "Odds and Ends: Repairing the Ethiopian 787; the ELT theory", List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft, List of attacks against Israeli civilians before 1967, 1931 Transcontinental & Western Air Fokker F-10 crash, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TWA_Flight_840_hijacking&oldid=963487407, Trans World Airlines accidents and incidents, Aviation accidents and incidents in Syria, Palestinian terrorist incidents in Europe, Accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 707, Terrorist attacks attributed to Palestinian militant groups, Terrorist incidents in Greece in the 1960s, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 20 June 2020, at 01:44.

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