On October 13, 1977, the 181st flight of Federal Deutsche Airlines from Macalho Island, Spain, was hijacked by four terrorists on its way to Frankfurt. All 82 passengers and five crew members on board became hostages of terrorists. On the 17th, the plane landed in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, under the aegis of terrorists. The terrorists threatened to blow up the plane and kill all the hostages if they did not comply with the request in order to rescue their accomplices in the Federal German prison as soon as possible. The German government immediately organized a self-rescue operation. A team of 61 members of GSG9, which they sent, landed on a sand dune about 200 meters away from the terrorists outside the runway of Mogadishu Airport at 7:30 p.m. on the 17th, under the cover of darkness. later. 61 commandos, with the assistance of a British anti-terrorist expert, blasted the hatch with directional bombs at 2:05 am on the 18th, rushed into the plane, and threw flash bombs into the cockpit. In the face of the sudden attack, the terrorists were quickly eliminated, and the entire operation took only 1 minute and 46 seconds.
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