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Line 26: [[File:Route der Flugzeugentführung - Landshut - KEBVersion.svg\|thumb\|280px\|The Route (in German)]] '''Lufthansa Flight 181''' was a [[Boeing]] [[Boeing 737\|737-230C]] jetliner (reg. D-ABCE) named the ''Landshut'' that was [[aircraft hijacking\|hijacked]] on 13 October 1977 by four members of the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]], who called themselves Commando Martyr Halima. The objective of the hijacking was to secure the release of imprisoned [[Red Army Faction]] leaders in German prisons. In the early hours of 18 October, just after midnight, the [[West German]] counter-terrorism group [[GSG 9]], backed by the [[Somali Armed Forces]], stormed the aircraft in [[Mogadishu]], [[Somali Democratic Republic\|Somalia]], with 86 passengers and four of the total five crew rescued.<ref>Global Counterstrike: International Counterterrorism - Page 22 Samuel M. Katz · 2005</ref> The rescue operation was codenamed ''Feuerzauber'' (German for "~~Fire~~ Magic Fire").<ref name="GWAI1">{{Cite report\|title=Executive Summary "Operation Magic Fire"\|url=https://www.academia.edu/4137770\|first=Mark\|last=Carolla\|publisher=GW Aviation Institute\|location=Washington D.C.\|date=2007\|access-date=2023-11-09\|isbn=}}</ref> The hijacking is considered to be part of the [[German Autumn]]. == Lufthansa crew ==

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