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1973 Palestinian hijacking...
Item # 721614
December 17, 1973
THE RALEIGH TIMES, Dec. 17, 1973
* Pan Am Flight 110 hijacking
* Boeing 707 airplane - aircraft
* Arab terrorists - Rome, Italy
* Palestinian Black September Organization
The top of the front page has a headline announcing: "Terrorists blow up jetliner, hijack another; many dead" (see images)
Complete with 40+ pages, a few small binding holes along the spine, generally in very nice condition.
background: In December 1973, the major Rome-related air-terror incident was the attack on Pan Am Flight 110 at Rome–Fiumicino Airport on December 17, 1973, an event often grouped with hijackings because the gunmen intended to seize an aircraft. Four armed members of the Palestinian Black September Organization stormed the airport terminal, killing several people there before moving onto the Pan Am Boeing 707 preparing for departure. They opened fire inside the cabin and set off incendiary devices, killing 30 passengers and crew. The attackers then fled from the burning aircraft, hijacked a Lufthansa Boeing 737, and forced its crew to fly first to Athens, then Beirut, and finally Kuwait, where they surrendered. The Rome massacre and subsequent Lufthansa hijacking marked one of the deadliest aviation-related terror events of the 1970s and prompted major changes in airport security across Europe.
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