The hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu. The remaining hostages are later rescued.

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…