1988 Kuwait Airways Hijacking
In 1988 a Kuwait Airways Boeing was hijacked and diverted to Algiers while on its way to Kuwait from Bangkok. The hijacking lasted 16 days and ended with a Naval Officer from the Kuwaiti Royal Family being killed along with another Kuwaiti military person. The Algerian authorities allowed the hijackers to escape in exchange for the remainder of the 110 people aboard to be set free. (Wikipedia)
This is a video sporty4ever uploaded on to YouTube which is of the plane returning back to Kuwait after the hijacking.
[YouTube]
Jun 20, 2007
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8 Comments, add your own...
1. bosale7 | June 20th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
تصحيح :
لم يقتل اي عضو من الاسرة الحاكمة ….. كانت هناك سيدتين من الاسرة الحاكمة ضمن المختطفين لكن عادتا بسلام
المقنتولين اثنين كويتين … نصار الخالدي وشخص اخر لا اذكره
2. Exhaleq8 | June 20th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
I wonder how Bush would react to a hijacking.
“My job is a job to make decisions. I’m a decision—if the job description were, what do you do—it’s decision maker.”—Tipp City, Ohio, April 19, 2007
3. Muh'd M. Mansour | June 20th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
its amazing to know how Youtube.com help people to archive their memories and other unforgettable moments, and share it with the world.
4. yo_ghurt | June 20th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Sigh. Remember when hijacking was the worst that could happen?
5. Mini R. | June 20th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
I’ll never forget those 16 days. It was even the Jabriya aircraft, in which our beloved Amir (allah yer7ama) used to fly in.
The 2nd person killed that bosale7 doesn’t recall his name was a family friend’s son, rest in peace.
Nice post Mark, there are some old footage of Kuwait during the invasion & all in YouTube. Pretty interesting.
6. forzaq8 | June 21st, 2007 at 2:22 pm
it landed in Iran before it tried to land in Lebanon then went to Algeria
7. Desert Girl | June 23rd, 2007 at 4:03 pm
As I recall - a lot of hostages were men who had supposedly gone to Haj and were on this flight back from Thailand….
8. rampurple | June 24th, 2007 at 9:31 am
LOL Desert Girl. As far as I recall, there was one man who had told his wife he is going to Hajj but was on this plane to Bangkok. The authorities call the wife but she refused to believe them. I wonder what happened to the man in the hands of his wife, not the hijackers lol
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