Hiiraan Online
Thursday September 14, 2017
Nairobi (HOL) - Lufthansa airline announced on Wednesday that they began disassembling the Boeing 737 that was hijacked in 1977 by four Palestinian militants hijacked with 87 people on board to Somalia will be shipped back to Germany for preservation.
A group of Lufthansa engineers arrived in Fortaleza, in northeastern Brazil, to collect the pieces of the aircraft, which was infamously hijacked during its flight from Mallorca to Frankfurt by a Palestinian commando group who demanded the release of imprisoned members of West Germany’s Red Army group.
The plane has been stored at the Fortaleza airport for years and, after it is disassembled, it will be shipped to Germany, where it will be put on display to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the hijacking.
The militants who called themselves "Commando Martyr Halima” diverted the plane to Somalia, where an elite German anti-terrorist brigade assaulted it five days after the hijacking.
Three of the four Palestinian hijackers died in the assault.
The jet was hijacked at the height of the terror campaign by the leftist Red Army against West German authorities.
