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Hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181 by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

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Lufthansa Flight 181

1977 aircraft hijacking

Lufthansa Flight 181, a Boeing 737-230C 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 Mallorca, Spain, to Frankfurt am Main, West Germany. The hijacking aimed to…
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Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Palestinian Marxist–Leninist organization

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is a secular Palestinian Marxist–Leninist organization founded in 1967 by George Habash. It has consistently been the second-largest of the groups forming the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the largest being Fatah.
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