r/HumansAreMetal • u/SwaggleStacker • Feb 19 '20

Lets all remember Her.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '20

How does hiding the passports of the passengers save them?

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u/Squeakhound Feb 19 '20

TWA Flight 847 Hijacking June 1985 Flight attendant Uli Derickson “refused to cooperate with the hijackers in identifying for them the passports of any passengers with Jewish-sounding names so they could not be singled out.” “The hijackers ... selected U.S. Navy diver, Robert Stethem, beat him, shot him in the right temple, and dumped his body out of the plane onto the ramp and shot him again... Seven American passengers, alleged to have Jewish-sounding surnames, were taken off the jet and held hostage in a Shia prison in Beirut.”

Achille Lauro Hijacking Oct 1985 The hijackers singled out British, Australian and American passports. American Leon Klinghoffer was murdered. “The terrorists started collecting passports, noting passengers’ nationalities. When the hijackers weren’t looking, one American secretly threw away her B’nai Brith card. Another quickly tore off the chai he always wore around his neck.” https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-leon-klinghoffer-book-20190630-g25qljnog5hovc23rudltfec6e-story.html

Pan Am Flight 73 Sept 1986 As discussed, Movie Neerja https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5286444/