Achille Lauro Cruise Ship Hijackers
7 1985 by four Palestinian militants associated with a faction of the Palestine Liberation Front PLF.
Achille lauro cruise ship hijackers. Four Palestinian terrorists board the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro shortly after it left Alexandria Egypt in order to hijack the luxury linerThe well. Achille Lauro hijacking hijacking of the Italian cruise ship the MS Achille Lauro on Oct. Syria refused to permit the ship to anchor in its waters which prompted more threats from the hijackers.
Aboard were 748 passengers and several hundred crew. The Achille Lauro was an Italian cruise liner from hell. The Achille Lauro left Genoa Italy on October 3 for a 12-day cruise of the Mediterranean SeaAboard were 748 passengers and several hundred crew.
As part of its Learn from the past series SAFETY4SEA remembers the hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985 by four heavily armed Palestinian militants who posed as passengers resulting to the brutal murder of one passenger. All 1090 passengers and crew had to leave the vessel in lifeboats. 8 1985 the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro ah-KEE-leh LOW-roh killed American passenger Leon Klinghoffer who was in a wheelchair and threw his body overboard.
The Achille Lauro left Genoa Italy on October 3 for a 12-day cruise of the Mediterranean Sea. 7 1985 by four Palestinian militants associated with a faction of the Palestine Liberation Front PLF. Brochures show the twin-stack Achille Lauro to weigh.
Achille Lauro Hijacker Nabbed In Iraq. Aboard were 748 passengers and several hundred crew. On this day October 7 in 1985 four heavily-armed members of the Palestinian Liberation Front PLF hijacked the Achille Lauro cruise ship off the coast of Egypt that was traveling from.
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. On October 7 the ship docked at Alexandria Egypt and 651 passengers disembarked to tour the pyramids intending to rendezvous with the ship at Port Said that night. The next day October 10 the four hijackers boarded an Egypt Air Boeing 737 airliner.
