On this day, June 14, in 1985, Trans World Airline Flight 847 was hijacked by Hezbollah terrorists. The hijackers demanded to know the identities of people “with Jewish-sounding names.” The terrorists ...
A 65-year-old Lebanese man arrested recently in Greece in connection with the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847, in which a US Navy diver was killed, was released after police said it was a case of ...
LEOMINSTER — Author and city councilor Mark Bodanza has penned his 11th book, “Hostage Terror: Ralf Traugott and the Hijacking of Flight 847,” which details the oftentimes harrowing yet inspiring ...
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- The 17-day ordeal of TWA Flight 847 produced one of the most enduring images of terrorism: a picture of the airplane's pilot leaning out of the cockpit window as a hijacker clamped ...
The Taking Of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story, also marketed as The Flight on video, is a 1988 made-for-TV film based on the actual hijacking of TWA Flight 847 as seen through the eyes of Uli ...