On This Day: June 30, 1985 – American Hostages Freed After TWA Flight 847 Hijacking

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On This Day: June 30, 1985 – American Hostages Freed After TWA Flight 847 Hijacking.

On this day June 30, 1985, the 39 American hostages who had been held captive aboard TWA Flight 847 were freed in Beirut after 17 tense days. The plane had originally been scheduled to travel from Cairo, Egypt to San Diego, California, with stops along the way. During the flight, it was hijacked by armed Lebanese militants who diverted it to Beirut and later Algiers before returning to Beirut, where most of the ordeal took place.

The hijackers, affiliated with Hezbollah, demanded the...

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