On This Day October 10 1985 - A U.S. Navy Aircraft Intercepted an Egyptian Airliner That Was Hijacked

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Pete

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Pete has published a news story:

On This Day October 10 1985 - A U.S. Navy Aircraft Intercepted an Egyptian Airliner That Was Hijacked.

On this day October 10 1985, a U.S. Navy F-14 fighter jet intercepted an Egyptian airliner carrying four Palestinian hijackers responsible for the takeover of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro. The dramatic midair operation forced the plane to land at a NATO base in Sicily, where the hijackers were taken into custody.

The Achille Lauro hijacking had captured worldwide attention days earlier when the terrorists took more than 400 passengers hostage and murdered American passenger Leon...
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