Escape Hijack to Mogadishu (Season 1, Episode 2)
TV Episode | Drama

Escape

Hijack to Mogadishu (Season 1, Episode 2)

TV Episode | Drama

5th September 1977; German industrial leader Hanns Martin Schleyer and 84 other passengers were kidnapped on a Lufthansa plane and flown to Mogadishu. There aims were to release 10 members of the Baader Meinhof gang.

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Ben Rea

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Updated Sep 19, 1980

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Sep 19, 1980 (United Kingdom)

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21 cast members

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