He spent enough time in an American prisoner of war camp at the end of World War II to learn English perfectly. We were not asking anyone to share the political responsibility but rather to get their advice and acceptance morally.". No decision had been made to try to use force to free the hostages, but two squads of 32 men each boarded a special jet and headed for Cyprus that night. Directed by Roland Suso Richter. The idea of unanimity, as Schmidt saw it, was vital both to effective negotiations with the hijackers and to the avoidance of a wrenching political fight that could have polarized the nation in the event of failure. In Dubai, the pilot was able to communicate the number of attackers and the gender (two male, two female). They headed for Oman, but the sultan refused permission to land and they went to Aden, where South Yemen authorities also tried to keep them from landing.

Fifty -five minutes after takeoff, two women hijackers reached into their boots, withdrew guns and hand grenades, and with two male accomplices, took command of the flight.

On board of the airplane were 86 passengers and five employees of Lufthansa.

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In Dubai, the pilot was able to communicate the number of attackers and the gender (two male, two female). Schmidt's left-center coalition had been under fire all year, from conservatives who argued that it was too soft on fighting terrism, and from left-wingers who argued that civil liberties were being crushed in the battle being waged. A West Germans foreign aid program involving advisory help to the Somalia police force - which created considerable controversy in the bonn Parliament several years ago - came in handy in gaining the approval. A few months later, terrorists took over the West German embassy in Stockholm and demanded that more prisoners be freed. He did so by asking the tower for. "said a top Schmidt adviser.

However, Wischnewski says was that three times the hijackers harshly rejected Somali offers of safe conduct in return for freeing the hostages. Forty minutes later, a four-line German press agency bulletin flashed across teletypes in the offices of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who reportedly saw at once that the biggest challenge of his career had begun. Lufthansa is famous for being one of the world’s safest and best airlines, probably because it is from Germany – a country best known for technology, engineering, and lack of humor. Ten hours after landing in Aden, the plane, with the co-pilot at the controls, headed for what would be its sixth contry and last stop - Mogadishu, Somalia, last Monday. It was over in seven minutes and when the unit came back to Cologne for a heroes' welcome the following day, they were wearing jeans and sport clothes.