9K-ADB, the hijacked aircraft, at Frankfurt Airport in 1992
Hijacking
Date
5–20 April 1988
Summary
Hijacking
Site
Arabian Sea
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Boeing 747-269B
Operator
Kuwait Airways
Registration
9K-ADB
Flight origin
Don Mueang International Airport, Bangkok, Thailand
Destination
Kuwait International Airport, Kuwait City, Kuwait
Occupants
112
Passengers
97
Crew
15
Fatalities
2 (Abdullah Khalidi,Khalid Ayoub Bandar)
Survivors
110
Kuwait Airways Flight 422 was a Boeing 747 jumbo jet hijacked en route from Bangkok, Thailand, to Kuwait City, Kuwait on 5 April 1988, leading to a hostage crisis that lasted 16 days and encompassed three continents. The hijacking was carried out by several Lebanese guerillas who demanded the release of 17 Shi'ite Muslim prisoners being held by Kuwait for their role in the 1983 Kuwait bombings. During the incident the flight, initially forced to land in Iran, traveled 3,200 mi (5,100 km) from Mashhad in northeastern Iran to Larnaca, Cyprus, and finally to Algiers.
Kuwait sent officials to negotiate with the group, but negotiations became bogged down because the terrorists refused to release the hostages. Two hostages were killed during the course of the siege, before it eventually ended in Algiers on 20 April. The hijackers – who were suspected by Kuwait of belonging to the Lebanon-based Hezbollah organisation – were given passage out of Algeria. With a duration of 16 days, the crisis became one of the world's longest skyjackings. It also inspired a brief armed siege at a high school in the United States a few days later.
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