Wischnewski is best known outside Germany for his involvement in the " German Autumn " of 1977 : when the German business executive Hanns Martin Schleyer was kidnapped by the militant Red Army Faction ( RAF ) in September , Wischnewski visited several Arabian governments and during the joint RAF and PFLP hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181 in October followed the plane to Mogadishu , negotiating with the Somalian government . His success allowed German GSG 9 troops to storm the plane and rescue 90 hostages ; three of the hijackers were killed in the process
Lufthansa Flight 181
Lufthansa Flight 181
Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski