A Lufthansa Boeing 727-100, similar to the aircraft involved in the hijacking of Flight 615
Hijacking
Date
29 October 1972
Summary
Hijacking
Site
Nicosia International Airport
Zagreb Airport
Tripoli International Airport
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Boeing 727-100
Aircraft name
Kiel
Operator
Lufthansa
Registration
D-ABIG
Flight origin
Damascus Airport
Stopover
Beirut International Airport
2nd stopover
Esenboğa International Airport
3rd stopover
Munich-Riem Airport
Destination
Frankfurt Airport
Passengers
13 (including 2 hijackers)
Crew
7
Fatalities
0
Injuries
0
Survivors
20
The hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 615 was an aircraft hijacking that occurred on 29 October 1972 and aimed at the liberation of the three surviving perpetrators of the Munich massacre from a West German prison.
When the Lufthansa airplane was seized by sympathisers of the Black September Organization during the Beirut-Ankara part of a multi-stopover flight from Damascus to Frankfurt, the West German authorities complied with the demand of having the prisoners released. They were handed over at Zagreb Airport, and the hijacked aircraft was flown to Tripoli, where all hostages were released.[1] The liberated Munich attackers were granted asylum by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
For its actions, the West German government was criticised by Israel and other parties.[1] Allegations were made that the hijacking had been staged or at least tolerated with theories of a secret agreement between the German government and Black September – release of the surviving militants in exchange for assurances of no further attacks on Germany.
^ abBlumenau, Bernhard (2014). The United Nations and Terrorism. Germany, Multilateralism, and Antiterrorism Efforts in the 1970s. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 47–9. ISBN 978-1-137-39196-4.
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