Airport was to fly out all the hijackers, the 21 Moluccan prisoners, and the five teachers. Thanks to the eavesdropping devices, Justice Minister Dries van Agt (under resignation) knew that the hostages were not in danger, so the government let the second ultimatum deadline pass as well. Negotiation J.A. Manusama, president of the RMS at the time, and Reverend Metiarij acted as negotiators during the crisis. Due to an illness that broke out in the school, likely caused by the food distributed there, the hijackers decided to release the children, but keep the teachers hostage. According to Doctor Frans Tutuhatunewa (later Manusama's successor as RMS president), there were no health issues with the hostages in the train, but the health of the hostages was nevertheless invoked to justify the raid on the train. Attack On 11 June 1977 at 05:00, almost three weeks after the start of the hijacking, six F-104 Starfighter jet fighters of the Royal Netherlands Air Force overflew the train three times at low altitude, using their deafening afterburners to disorient the hijackers and make the hostages drop to the floor of the train for greater safety. One of the Starfighter pilots was Dick Berlijn, who would go on to become Chief of Defence of the Netherlands Armed Forces. Then, Marines of the counter-terrorist BBE special forces started firing rifles and machine guns at the train, shooting approximately 15,000 bullets in all. The Marines aimed at the first class compartments and vestibules (the sections equipped with doors between train cars) because they knew the hijackers were located there. One of the two hostages killed was in located in one such compartment, after having been allowed to stay there by the hijackers. Six of the nine train hijackers were killed in the assault. Hijacking timeline 09:00 23 May 1977: Start of the train hijacking 24 May: National broadcaster NOS reads the letter with the hijackers' demands 25 May: Dutch General Elections take place; first ultimatum deadline expires 26 May: A handcuffed hostage is taken outside the train, then taken aboard again 28 May: Hostages clean up the train; 60 activists offer themselves as alternative hostages 29 May: Negotiations about releasing a pregnant woman are cut off 30 May: Second week of the crisis begins 31 May: For the first time, the hijackers ask for a negotiator 1 June: The hijackers ask for an ambulance, but later retract the