40 years ago today, November 23, 1985 (October 12, 1985 in the lunar calendar), Egypt suffered an unprecedented hijacked tragedy. Surviving passengers walk off the plane At 8:05 p.m. on Saturday, November 23, 1985, an EgyptAir Boeing 737 took off from Athens Airport and headed for Cairo. Fifteen minutes after the passenger plane took off, the stewardess was busy distributing newspapers and magazines to passengers. Suddenly, a Palestinian youth in his twenties sitting in the front row slogan seat stood up and pulled out a gun and grenade from a plastic bag. At the same time, an Egyptian youth sitting in the back seat also took out a gun and raised the grenade. They shouted at the same time: "Don't move! We have taken over the plane!" Then the two men put on masks very quickly. At this time, the third Arab youth standing near the cockpit quickly rushed into the cockpit, holding the grenade with the lid open in his left hand and the revolver with the safety open in his right hand. He said to the pilot's head: "We have hijacked the plane! I order you to fly to Libya!" "No, there is not so much fuel. The plane will crash into the sea before it reaches it. It's possible to fly to Athens, or Cairo, or Italy." The pilot replied. "Then fly to Malta!" The pilot had to obey the hijacker's orders and turn around and fly west. At this time, the other two hijackers also got up from different seats and fiercely called the passengers to stand up one by one and hand in their passports. The passengers carried out their orders silently. When a hijacker came to a male passenger who stood up and reached out for a passport, the man fished and fished in his arms. In the end, what he took out was not a passport, but a pistol, and shot the hijacker. The hijacker in front of him fell down. The man then fired at the other hijackers, but he was outnumbered. The hijackers 'bullets shot at him from different directions. The man, the surrounding passengers and stewardesses suddenly fell into a pool of blood. This person turned out to be no ordinary passenger, but the Egyptian security guard responsible for security on the passenger plane. "Don't move around!" The hijacker roared, followed by two "pop" shots, and the bullet penetrated the top of the cabin. After a while, the stewardess's trembling voice came from the loudspeaker: "Ladies and gentlemen, please be quiet, please sit down, do not contact, and request an emergency landing. After two hours and eleven minutes, the passenger plane landed at Luga Airport at 22:16. As soon as the passenger plane stopped at Luga Airport, the hijacker contacted the airport authorities, requested refueling, and asked the airport to send a doctor, saying that there were casualties on board. Airport authorities, aware of the importance of the matter, refused the hijacker's request for refueling, but agreed to send a doctor to board the plane. A few minutes later, a doctor boarded the passenger plane and, with the help of the pilot, lifted and supported seven people at once, including a hijacker who was killed in an aerial gunfight, an Egyptian security guard and two injured passengers and two stewardess. After the pilot returned to the passenger plane, the hijacker leader took the passenger's passport, suddenly named seven Filipino female dancers and four Egyptian women, and said loudly,"We are friends. You are free. Please get off the plane!" After a while, the hijacker leader named another 24-year-old Israeli girl. The girl was overjoyed and thought that freedom was right in front of her. But she didn't expect that as soon as she stepped on the escalator to get off the plane, the hijacker leader shot her in the back of the head. The girl shouted "Help" and fell on the escalator. But she was not dead at the time and struggled to climb down. Seeing that she was not dead, the hijacker leader rushed out of the cabin and shot her several more times. When the hijacker leader returned to the cabin and called another 23-year-old Israeli girl, the girl refused to come out. Several hijackers stepped forward and twisted the girl out. He shot her in the back of the head and asked several passengers to drag her out of the cabin and throw her away. At this time, the hijacker leader was very proud, holding a pistol, dancing grenades, singing and dancing. When the female passenger saw his murderous look without blinking, she covered her face with her hands and couldn't bear to see it; the male passenger looked angry and dared not speak out. 15 minutes later, the hijacker called another American male passenger. The 28-year-old American passenger is a biologist who has just returned from a vacation in the Middle East and is preparing to return to the United States. His hair was disheveled, but he walked to the cabin door very calmly. The hijacker leader followed behind, raised his hand and shot him in the head. This American biologist can be said to be extremely smart. The moment the gunshot was fired, he fell to the ground and remained motionless. Although there was blood all over his face, the bullet only grazed his scalp. When he was picked up and thrown out of the cabin, he heard the hijacker return to the cabin, so he got up and ran away, saving his life. Twenty minutes later, another American woman who was called up was not as lucky as the biologist. Her head was blown open by a bullet and was dragged out and thrown away. Another 15 minutes later, the hijacker leader called up the second American woman, but the woman refused to come out and struggled with the hijacker who came to grab her. Finally, the hijacker tied her hands behind her back with rope and pressed her to kneel on the ground. The hijacker leader stepped forward and shot the back of her head, and the bullet penetrated through her right eye. When the woman was thrown outside the cabin, her hands were still tied upside down, her face landed first, and her nose was severely bruised. But it was another miracle that she was not dead. It was Sunday, November 24, at 2:20 a.m. The motivator roared over the radio to the airport command tower: "We've killed 5 people! If we don't give you more fuel for an hour and a half, we'll still kill people!" While the Prime Minister of Malta was negotiating with the hijackers, officials from the United States, Greece, Israel, Egypt, Libya and the PLO rushed to the airport to try to mediate and secure the release of the hostages. However, the hijackers were unwilling to talk to anyone, not even representatives of the PLO, and only offered to ask the Libya ambassador to Malta to board a plane to talk to them. But the Libya ambassador only radioed to the hijackers from the airport control tower over and over again the attitude of the Libya government: Libya was unwilling to accept the passenger plane due to the bloodshed. Then the ambassador walked out of the control tower and flew to Libya. At noon, the hijackers asked to deliver lunch to the passenger plane, and their demands were met. The food delivery also delivered a message from the Malta government: asking the hijackers to consider releasing the nine Palestinian children and a Canadian baby on board, and allowing airport personnel to carry away the dead and injured passengers they threw outside the passenger plane. But the hijackers refused to consider these demands, threatening to "shoot anyone who approaches the passenger plane!" "Whoever attacks us, we will blow up the passenger plane!" Faced with this situation, the Prime Minister of Malta decided: "We must never give in to terrorism. In the face of brutal and inhumane hijackers, people must not be given the impression that Malta is weak. This matter should be handled by our security forces. Now it seems that the only thing we can do is to raid and rescue as many hostages as possible." At this time, news came from Egypt: the Egyptian government had decided to launch a surprise attack on passenger aircraft, and the crisis would be well resolved. After obtaining the consent of the Malta government, two C-130 transport aircraft of the Egyptian army landed at the other end of the runway of Luga Airport, bringing in 25 Egyptian commandos and related equipment. Decided to attack Egyptian President Mubarak was very angry when he learned that the Egyptian passenger plane was passively held and its relevant intelligence. The hijacking of the cruise ship Akili Lauro six weeks ago kept him awake all night, and the interception of the Egyptian passenger plane carrying the hijackers by American fighter jets put him in a dilemma domestically and internationally. So as soon as he heard the news that the passenger plane had been hijacked, he immediately instructed Foreign Minister Meguid, who was visiting Western Europe, to postpone his departure and negotiate with Libya. Foreign Minister Meguid immediately called Libya Foreign Minister Obeidi: "We believe that your country is behind this hijacking. This is an extremely serious problem." "I can't accept your accusation, but I need to clarify the situation further. Please call back in 15 minutes." The other party replied. But 15 minutes later, his phone was no longer available. President Mubarak then called an emergency meeting with foreign ministers, defense ministers, senior armed forces officers and intelligence officials. At the meeting, intelligence officials introduced intelligence from various sources; The meeting lasted for 90 minutes. Finally, President Mubarak personally decided to raid the passenger plane. He was determined to severely punish these terrorists at any cost. He ordered Major-General Kamal Atiya, commander of the Egyptian commando, to take full responsibility for implementing the raid plan and directed that the United States be notified of Egypt's decision. Egypt's decision quickly received strong support from the United States. The aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea, located in the Mediterranean Sea, immediately put on alert to closely monitor movements over the Mediterranean Sea. At the same time, several F-18 fighter jets and F-2 early warning radar aircraft were dispatched to the NATO Air Force Base in Sicily, Italy, in case Egyptian transport aircraft carrying commandos were urgently dispatched when they were intercepted by Libya aircraft on their way to Malta. At the same time, three anti-terrorism experts from the United States also went to Malta with the Egyptian commando plane. They carried advanced electronic detectors that could detect the hijackers 'conversations and determine their position inside the passenger plane. However, because the Malta government was dissatisfied with the U.S. policy in the Middle East and refused to allow Americans to directly participate in the campaign to rescue the hostages, the three American experts stayed in the Egyptian transport plane and did not come out. At 6:45 pm in the night raid, the hurried voice of the pilot of the Egyptian passenger plane suddenly came from the loudspeaker of the Luga Airport command tower: "The front and rear doors of the passenger plane cabin are locked. To enter the passenger plane, you can only go through the cargo door." It turned out that the pilot with more than 10 years of flying experience realized that the Malta government or the Egyptian government would never sit back and wait like this. He had a premonition that an attack was imminent, so he took advantage of the opportunity to watch his hijacker leader go to the toilet and promptly sent very important information. At this time, the raid was ready and waited until dark. At 8:15 p.m., the Egyptian president formally issued the order for a raid. Five minutes later, the lights at Luga Airport suddenly went out and the airport was suddenly dark. At the beginning of the raid, 12 Egyptian commandos rushed in four directions to the cargo door of the passenger plane and three emergency exits on the wings. The commandos rushed to the cargo door and opened it in. At this time, a small yellow light on the dashboard in the cockpit lit up. The pilot realized that the cargo compartment door had been opened. In order not to let the hijacker leader who was monitoring him notice, he turned off the small yellow light. At the same time, in order to divert the hijacker leader's attention, he took the initiative to chat with him: "In this case, if I were I, I would surrender without getting refueling..." Unexpectedly, the voice in the cargo compartment still alarmed the hijacker. The hijacker leader turned and rushed into the cabin from the cockpit and threw the grenade in his hand. The other hijackers also threw two grenades. The grenade exploded and caught fire in the cabin, the lights went out, and there was a cloud of smoke. The hijackers then fired, and passengers fell one after another in the grenade explosion and shooting. The survivors hurriedly fell to the ground, but were choked by the smoke, and many passengers died of suffocation by the smoke. At this time, the hijacker leader suddenly remembered the pilot, turned around and rushed back to the cockpit, and shot the pilot in the head. Unexpectedly, the pilot was already prepared. His head tilted and the bullet grazed his scalp. He then raised the prepared axe and hit his head. The hijacker leader fell down. Commando Captain Mustad Haeklevi, who entered through the cargo door, had a leg broken by a grenade thrown by the hijackers, but the commandos who entered through three emergency exits quickly fired at the hijackers, and the gun battle lasted for more than a minute. Commandos then quickly searched for surviving passengers and helped them evacuate the passenger plane. The entire hostage rescue raid lasted for 10 minutes, before the Egyptian commandos flew home. However, a lot of work left behind by Luga Airport has busy Malta medical staff. Malta Prime Minister Bonnici urgently appealed to medical staff to go to the airport for emergency treatment. The entire hijacking incident did not last long, only 24 hours before and after, but it caused serious consequences of killing 60 people and injuring 28 others, making it the most tragic hijacking to date.40 years ago today, November 23, 1985 (October 12, 1985 in the lunar calendar), Egypt suffered an unprecedented hijacked tragedy. Surviving passengers walk off the plane At 8:05 p.m. on Saturday, November 23, 1985, an EgyptAir Boeing 737 took off from Athens Airport and headed for Cairo. Fifteen minutes after the passenger plane took off, the stewardess was busy distributing newspapers and magazines to passengers. Suddenly, a Palestinian youth in his twenties sitting in the front row slogan seat stood up and pulled out a gun and grenade from a plastic bag. At the same time, an Egyptian youth sitting in the back seat also took out a gun and raised the grenade. They shouted at the same time: "Don't move! We have taken over the plane!" Then the two men put on masks very quickly. At this time, the third Arab youth standing near the cockpit quickly rushed into the cockpit, holding the grenade with the lid open in his left hand and the revolver with the safety open in his right hand. He said to the pilot's head: "We have hijacked the plane! I order you to fly to Libya!" "No, there is not so much fuel. The plane will crash into the sea before it reaches it. It's possible to fly to Athens, or Cairo, or Italy." The pilot replied. "Then fly to Malta!" The pilot had to obey the hijacker's orders and turn around and fly west. At this time, the other two hijackers also got up from different seats and fiercely called the passengers to stand up one by one and hand in their passports. The passengers carried out their orders silently. When a hijacker came to a male passenger who stood up and reached out for a passport, the man fished and fished in his arms. In the end, what he took out was not a passport, but a pistol, and shot the hijacker. The hijacker in front of him fell down. The man then fired at the other hijackers, but he was outnumbered. The hijackers 'bullets shot at him from different directions. The man, the surrounding passengers and stewardesses suddenly fell into a pool of blood. This person turned out to be no ordinary passenger, but the Egyptian security guard responsible for security on the passenger plane. "Don't move around!" The hijacker roared, followed by two "pop" shots, and the bullet penetrated the top of the cabin. After a while, the stewardess's trembling voice came from the loudspeaker: "Ladies and gentlemen, please be quiet, please sit down, do not contact, and request an emergency landing. After two hours and eleven minutes, the passenger plane landed at Luga Airport at 22:16. As soon as the passenger plane stopped at Luga Airport, the hijacker contacted the airport authorities, requested refueling, and asked the airport to send a doctor, saying that there were casualties on board. Airport authorities, aware of the importance of the matter, refused the hijacker's request for refueling, but agreed to send a doctor to board the plane. A few minutes later, a doctor boarded the passenger plane and, with the help of the pilot, lifted and supported seven people at once, including a hijacker who was killed in an aerial gunfight, an Egyptian security guard and two injured passengers and two stewardess. After the pilot returned to the passenger plane, the hijacker leader took the passenger's passport, suddenly named seven Filipino female dancers and four Egyptian women, and said loudly,"We are friends. You are free. Please get off the plane!" After a while, the hijacker leader named another 24-year-old Israeli girl. The girl was overjoyed and thought that freedom was right in front of her. But she didn't expect that as soon as she stepped on the escalator to get off the plane, the hijacker leader shot her in the back of the head. The girl shouted "Help" and fell on the escalator. But she was not dead at the time and struggled to climb down. Seeing that she was not dead, the hijacker leader rushed out of the cabin and shot her several more times. When the hijacker leader returned to the cabin and called another 23-year-old Israeli girl, the girl refused to come out. Several hijackers stepped forward and twisted the girl out. He shot her in the back of the head and asked several passengers to drag her out of the cabin and throw her away. At this time, the hijacker leader was very proud, holding a pistol, dancing grenades, singing and dancing. When the female passenger saw his murderous look without blinking, she covered her face with her hands and couldn't bear to see it; the male passenger looked angry and dared not speak out. 15 minutes later, the hijacker called another American male passenger. The 28-year-old American passenger is a biologist who has just returned from a vacation in the Middle East and is preparing to return to the United States. His hair was disheveled, but he walked to the cabin door very calmly. The hijacker leader followed behind, raised his hand and shot him in the head. This American biologist can be said to be extremely smart. The moment the gunshot was fired, he fell to the ground and remained motionless. Although there was blood all over his face, the bullet only grazed his scalp. When he was picked up and thrown out of the cabin, he heard the hijacker return to the cabin, so he got up and ran away, saving his life. Twenty minutes later, another American woman who was called up was not as lucky as the biologist. Her head was blown open by a bullet and was dragged out and thrown away. Another 15 minutes later, the hijacker leader called up the second American woman, but the woman refused to come out and struggled with the hijacker who came to grab her. Finally, the hijacker tied her hands behind her back with rope and pressed her to kneel on the ground. The hijacker leader stepped forward and shot the back of her head, and the bullet penetrated through her right eye. When the woman was thrown outside the cabin, her hands were still tied upside down, her face landed first, and her nose was severely bruised. But it was another miracle that she was not dead. It was Sunday, November 24, at 2:20 a.m. The motivator roared over the radio to the airport command tower: "We've killed 5 people! If we don't give you more fuel for an hour and a half, we'll still kill people!" While the Prime Minister of Malta was negotiating with the hijackers, officials from the United States, Greece, Israel, Egypt, Libya and the PLO rushed to the airport to try to mediate and secure the release of the hostages. However, the hijackers were unwilling to talk to anyone, not even representatives of the PLO, and only offered to ask the Libya ambassador to Malta to board a plane to talk to them. But the Libya ambassador only radioed to the hijackers from the airport control tower over and over again the attitude of the Libya government: Libya was unwilling to accept the passenger plane due to the bloodshed. Then the ambassador walked out of the control tower and flew to Libya. At noon, the hijackers asked to deliver lunch to the passenger plane, and their demands were met. The food delivery also delivered a message from the Malta government: asking the hijackers to consider releasing the nine Palestinian children and a Canadian baby on board, and allowing airport personnel to carry away the dead and injured passengers they threw outside the passenger plane. But the hijackers refused to consider these demands, threatening to "shoot anyone who approaches the passenger plane!" "Whoever attacks us, we will blow up the passenger plane!" Faced with this situation, the Prime Minister of Malta decided: "We must never give in to terrorism. In the face of brutal and inhumane hijackers, people must not be given the impression that Malta is weak. This matter should be handled by our security forces. Now it seems that the only thing we can do is to raid and rescue as many hostages as possible." At this time, news came from Egypt: the Egyptian government had decided to launch a surprise attack on passenger aircraft, and the crisis would be well resolved. After obtaining the consent of the Malta government, two C-130 transport aircraft of the Egyptian army landed at the other end of the runway of Luga Airport, bringing in 25 Egyptian commandos and related equipment. Decided to attack Egyptian President Mubarak was very angry when he learned that the Egyptian passenger plane was passively held and its relevant intelligence. The hijacking of the cruise ship Akili Lauro six weeks ago kept him awake all night, and the interception of the Egyptian passenger plane carrying the hijackers by American fighter jets put him in a dilemma domestically and internationally. So as soon as he heard the news that the passenger plane had been hijacked, he immediately instructed Foreign Minister Meguid, who was visiting Western Europe, to postpone his departure and negotiate with Libya. Foreign Minister Meguid immediately called Libya Foreign Minister Obeidi: "We believe that your country is behind this hijacking. This is an extremely serious problem." "I can't accept your accusation, but I need to clarify the situation further. Please call back in 15 minutes." The other party replied. But 15 minutes later, his phone was no longer available. President Mubarak then called an emergency meeting with foreign ministers, defense ministers, senior armed forces officers and intelligence officials. At the meeting, intelligence officials introduced intelligence from various sources; The meeting lasted for 90 minutes. Finally, President Mubarak personally decided to raid the passenger plane. He was determined to severely punish these terrorists at any cost. He ordered Major-General Kamal Atiya, commander of the Egyptian commando, to take full responsibility for implementing the raid plan and directed that the United States be notified of Egypt's decision. Egypt's decision quickly received strong support from the United States. The aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea, located in the Mediterranean Sea, immediately put on alert to closely monitor movements over the Mediterranean Sea. At the same time, several F-18 fighter jets and F-2 early warning radar aircraft were dispatched to the NATO Air Force Base in Sicily, Italy, in case Egyptian transport aircraft carrying commandos were urgently dispatched when they were intercepted by Libya aircraft on their way to Malta. At the same time, three anti-terrorism experts from the United States also went to Malta with the Egyptian commando plane. They carried advanced electronic detectors that could detect the hijackers 'conversations and determine their position inside the passenger plane. However, because the Malta government was dissatisfied with the U.S. policy in the Middle East and refused to allow Americans to directly participate in the campaign to rescue the hostages, the three American experts stayed in the Egyptian transport plane and did not come out. At 6:45 pm in the night raid, the hurried voice of the pilot of the Egyptian passenger plane suddenly came from the loudspeaker of the Luga Airport command tower: "The front and rear doors of the passenger plane cabin are locked. To enter the passenger plane, you can only go through the cargo door." It turned out that the pilot with more than 10 years of flying experience realized that the Malta government or the Egyptian government would never sit back and wait like this. He had a premonition that an attack was imminent, so he took advantage of the opportunity to watch his hijacker leader go to the toilet and promptly sent very important information. At this time, the raid was ready and waited until dark. At 8:15 p.m., the Egyptian president formally issued the order for a raid. Five minutes later, the lights at Luga Airport suddenly went out and the airport was suddenly dark. At the beginning of the raid, 12 Egyptian commandos rushed in four directions to the cargo door of the passenger plane and three emergency exits on the wings. The commandos rushed to the cargo door and opened it in. At this time, a small yellow light on the dashboard in the cockpit lit up. The pilot realized that the cargo compartment door had been opened. In order not to let the hijacker leader who was monitoring him notice, he turned off the small yellow light. At the same time, in order to divert the hijacker leader's attention, he took the initiative to chat with him: "In this case, if I were I, I would surrender without getting refueling..." Unexpectedly, the voice in the cargo compartment still alarmed the hijacker. The hijacker leader turned and rushed into the cabin from the cockpit and threw the grenade in his hand. The other hijackers also threw two grenades. The grenade exploded and caught fire in the cabin, the lights went out, and there was a cloud of smoke. The hijackers then fired, and passengers fell one after another in the grenade explosion and shooting. The survivors hurriedly fell to the ground, but were choked by the smoke, and many passengers died of suffocation by the smoke. At this time, the hijacker leader suddenly remembered the pilot, turned around and rushed back to the cockpit, and shot the pilot in the head. Unexpectedly, the pilot was already prepared. His head tilted and the bullet grazed his scalp. He then raised the prepared axe and hit his head. The hijacker leader fell down. Commando Captain Mustad Haeklevi, who entered through the cargo door, had a leg broken by a grenade thrown by the hijackers, but the commandos who entered through three emergency exits quickly fired at the hijackers, and the gun battle lasted for more than a minute. Commandos then quickly searched for surviving passengers and helped them evacuate the passenger plane. The entire hostage rescue raid lasted for 10 minutes, before the Egyptian commandos flew home. However, a lot of work left behind by Luga Airport has busy Malta medical staff. Malta Prime Minister Bonnici urgently appealed to medical staff to go to the airport for emergency treatment. The entire hijacking incident did not last long, only 24 hours before and after, but it caused serious consequences of killing 60 people and injuring 28 others, making it the most tragic hijacking to date.