1985 Event U.S. fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody 1985 Death Leon Klinghoffer, hijackers of Achille Lauro, threw him off boat 1984 Event Hijackers aboard Kuwaiti jetliner kill 2nd hostage 1984 Event Hijackers commandeered a Kuwaiti airliner 1977 Event West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86 hostages and killing 3 of 4 hijackers 1976 Event Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew and passengers being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers 1968 Event 21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan
