Was it the first time a Plane was hijacked in Somalia?

[Somali2003]

I mean these guys were quite well organized in their crimes, but how could a plane sitting on an open-air dock be easily led away without even any resistance?
These guys wearing their own suits , strolled passed the rag tag security guarding the Bosaso airfield, entered the plane and then forced the pilot to fly the plane to Las Qorey.


Djiboutian businessmen embraced how the situation was handled by adminstration in Sanaag.
http://www.laasqoray.net/view_article.p ... cleid=1496

[wadaniweyn1]

no it wasn,t cos two hy and a hj manz hijacked airplane fool of faqash to ethiopia back in the eigthies and hang some of the faqash sna leaders

[cabdallah252]

first sea piracy


now this


stupid somalis

[DawladSade]

No, in 1991 Mareexaan hijacked a plan that was coming from Djibouti carrying high ranking USC guys, hub bay Djibouti ka wadeen and a Reer Siyaad guy hijacked it to Garbaharey, I'm surprised you don't know, it is a famous event

[DawladSade]

---"Date:July 2, 1991

"A supporter of ousted Somali president Mohamed Siad Barre has hijacked a plane to a stronghold of his Marehan clan in Somalia, a reliable source contacted from the Kenyan capital said on Tuesday.

The Somali Airlines Dornier 228 with 20 passengers and two crew was flying on Sunday from neighbouring Djibouti to the Somali capital Mogadishu when it was hijacked to Garbaaharrey 300 kilometres (180 miles) north-west of Mogadishu, the source said.""----

Highlevel USC delegation went to Djibouti to buy weapons and when they were coming back, a reer Cigaal Siyaad armed with just a pistol locked himself in the cockpit and ordered the the plan to go to Garbaharey. Tuulo Barwaaqo baa xitaa la geeyey and it is there today, decayed and no is allowed to touch it. It is like a souvenir.

He told me the USC madax were treated just fine as Mareexaan treated all POWs well and they were then asked if they wanted to go to Xamar or pass into Kenya, they wanted to go to Nairobi so Mandeera baa la geeyey and then it's on your own baa lagu yiri.

[Kramer]

On October 13, 1977, Lufthansa flight LH181, a Boeing 737 flying from Palma de Mallorca to Frankfurt with 91 passengers and crew, was hijacked by four militants belonging to "Commando Martyr Halime". Their leader was Zohair Youssif Akache, who went by the alias "Captain Martyr Mahmud."

On October 17, at around 03:30 UTC, the Landshut landed in Mogadishu, Somalia, Schumann's body was thrown on the tarmac, and an ultimatum was set for the RAF prisoners to be released by 14:30 UTC. Hearing that one prisoner was released and the transfer to Mogadishu requiring several more hours, the deadline was extended to the next morning, 00:30 UTC.

A German GSG 9 commando had been following the hijacked aircraft closely ever since it left Larnaca. Following political negotiations with the Somali leader Siad Barré, the GSG 9, assisted by Somali forces and two SAS officers, stormed the airliner at 23:05 UTC (October 18 locally). After exploding recently designed flash grenades supplied by the SAS, the commando gained access to the aircraft through escape hatches under the fuselage and over the wings.

Of the four terrorists, Zohair Youssif Akache, Riza Abbasi, and Nadia Duaibes were killed while Souhaila Andrawes survived. A GSG 9 member and a flight attendant were injured. All the remaining 86 hostages were rescued and the majority were flown to Frankfurt a few hours later [2].


Hijacked plane in Mogadishu in 1977

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Land ... adishu.gif

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lufthansa_Flight_181