✸Hijacking of a US airliner (TWA 847)

On 14 June 1985 two gunmen hijacked TWA flight 847 after take-off from Athens for Rome and diverted it to Beirut, then Algiers, then Beirut again; the "Organisation of the Oppressed on Earth" claimed responsibility, demanding the release of 700 Lebanese detainees at Atlit. The American navy diver Robert Stethem was killed and thrown onto the runway; Nabih Berri took over the negotiations, the last 39 hostages were released after 17 days, and Israel released the Atlit detainees in stages.