Lot Polish Airlines Flight 165 Hijacking (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. LOT Polish Airlines Flight 165 hijacking was the hijacking of a LOT Polish Airlines that occurred on August 30, 1978. The hijackers from East Germany (GDR / DDR) were seeking political asylum in West Germany (FRG / BRD). The plane landed safely, and the primary hijacker was sentenced to time served, the nine months he had already served during pretrial detention.On August 30, 1978, a Polish LOT Polish Airlines Tupolev Tu-134 airliner with 63 passengers making Flight 165 from Gda sk, Poland, to East Berlin's Sch nefeld Airport was hijacked by GDR citizens Hans Detlef Tiede and his girlfriend Ingrid Ruske. Tiede, armed with a toy starting pistol, succeeded in forcing the aircraft to land at U.S. Air Force base at Tempelhof Airport in West Berlin. Ingrid Ruske took her young daughter with her. Not only did Tiede and Ruske claim sanctuary in West Berlin, but so did another six East Germans who were passengers.