![]() She was dubbed "the angel of Mogadishu" ( Engel von Mogadischu) by the German press. The airport catering supplied a cake with 28 candles embellished with "Happy Birthday Anna-Maria". Akache ordered a birthday cake and champagne via the radio in Dubai. Anna-Maria Staringer (28) Flight attendant. Subsequently she published a book on the hijacking entitled 'A Hundred Hours Between Fear and Hope'. She was in charge of the cabin crew, servicing the first class passengers. ![]() Hannelore Piegler (33) Chief flight attendant. He subsequently returned the medal in December 2008 in protest over the release on probation of the former Red Army Faction terrorist Christian Klar, who had been involved in the kidnap and murder of Hanns Martin Schleyer in 1977. He was also awarded the German Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class. He returned to work just six weeks after the hijacking, and the first aircraft he was assigned to was the Landshut which had already been repaired and returned to service. He piloted the Landshut from Aden to Mogadishu. Born in Kassel in 1942, a former German Navy pilot. The building housing the Lufthansa Pilot School in Bremen was named in his honour, as was a street in the Bavarian city of Landshut. Posthumously awarded the German Federal Cross of Merit 1st class, he was survived by his wife and two sons. He subsequently boarded the plane after returning and was then murdered by terrorist leader Zohair Youssef Akache after being accused of trying to escape. On 16 October at Aden Airport, after being permitted to leave the aircraft to check the plane's airworthiness, he went to talk to the Yemeni airport authorities to try and convince them to not let the plane take off. Born in Colditz in 1940, a former Luftwaffe Lockheed F-104 Starfighter pilot. ![]() Two flight crew and three cabin crew operated the round-trip flight from Frankfurt to Palma de Mallorca: Jürgen Schumann (37) Captain. The hijacking is considered to be part of the German Autumn. The rescue operation was codenamed Feuerzauber (German for "Fire Magic"). In the early hours of 18 October, just after midnight, the West German counter-terrorism group GSG 9, backed by the Somali Armed Forces, stormed the aircraft in Mogadishu, Somalia, with 86 passengers and four of the total five crew rescued. The objective of the hijacking was to secure the release of imprisoned Red Army Faction leaders in German prisons. D-ABCE) named the Landshut that was hijacked on 13 October 1977 by four members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who called themselves Commando Martyr Halima. Lufthansa Flight 181 was a Boeing 737-230C jetliner (reg. Subsequently Mogadishu International Airport, Somaliaĥ (1 flight attendant, 3 passengers, 1 hijacker) D-ABCE, the aircraft involved in the hijacking, pictured at Manchester Airport in 1975
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