1980 Cruise Ship Hijacking

Officials say Abu Abbas a notorious Palestinian terrorist who masterminded the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship in the.

1980 cruise ship hijacking. To hijack the vessel crew and passengers for a handsome ransom. On October 7 1985 four members of one of the PLOs factions the Palestine Liberation Front PLF hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and demanded the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israel. The Achille Lauro was scheduled to enter drydock after another 11-night cruise that was.

The Williamsburg brought 359 passengers and crew safely to Valdez. The trip of a lifetime takes a twist when slave trading pirates hijack the ship with only our two heroes to stop them. On October 11 1980 the Prinsendam capsized and sunk only 7 years after being built.

Videos you watch may be added to the TVs watch history and influence TV. Palestinian militants have hijacked an Italian cruise liner the Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean and threatened to blow it up. With Cody Nicole Nicole Black Camilla Franklin Eve Evans.

7 1985 the Italian cruise ship MS Achille Lauro was hijacked by four members of the Palestine Liberation Front off the coast of Egypt in the Mediterranean. Aboard were 748 passengers and several hundred crew. There are said to be 420 passengers and crew on board the ship.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak persuaded the hijackers to surrender but not before they shot to death a wheelchair-bound Jewish passenger from the United States. If playback doesnt begin shortly try restarting your device. It was mid-afternoon on a clear day when be t ween 813 speed boats could be seen clearly zig-zagging in front of the 102000 ton 273 m long vessel carrying 2720 passengers in a bid to slow it down and attempt boarding.

The ship involved in the hijacking the Achille Lauro returned to cruise duty until she was caught on fire off the coast of Somalia on November 30 1994. Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger presented DIA with the Agencys first Joint Meritorious Unit Award in 1986 for outstanding intelligence support over the previous year during a series of crises--the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 and the cruise ship ACHILLEA LAURO unrest in the Philippines and counterterrorist operations against Libya. After evacuating the ship of passengers the crew could not control the fire and the abandoned ship sank on December 2.