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First Known Plane Hijacking Was A Flight To Freedom

02-07-2015 9:58pm

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Nearly 60 years ago, Frank Iszak was a 25-year-old forced laborer in a Hungarian brick factory. With no hope of freedom and deteriorating conditions under the communist-ruled country, he hatched a far-fetched plan with a fellow laborer who happened to be a former fighter pilot: If they couldn’t crawl under the Iron Curtain, they would fly over it.

The two convinced four others to join their plan. On July 13, 1956, they boarded a small plane, and proceeded to launch the world’s first known hijacking. But the plan was anything but easy. Not only was there a KGB officer on board, but they also had to commandeer the plane, avoid the Alps, deal with precipitous drops and finally an empty fuel tank.

http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/06/29/hijacked-flight-frank-iszak

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