On 5 April 1988 , Kuwait Airways Flight 422 was hijacked from Bangkok to Kuwait with 111 passengers and crew aboard , including three members of the Kuwaiti Royal Family . Six or seven Lebanese men ( including Hassan Izz-Al-Din , a veteran of the TWA 847 hijacking ) armed with guns and hand grenades forced the pilot to land in Mashhad , Iran , and demanded the release of 17 Shiite Muslims guerrillas held in Kuwait . Lasting 16 days and traveling 3,200 mi from Mashhad in northeastern Iran to Larnaca , Cyprus , and finally to Algiers , it is the longest skyjacking to date . Two passengers , Abdullah Khalidi , 25 , and Khalid Ayoub Bandar , 20 , both Kuwaitis , were shot dead by the hijackers and dumped on the tarmac in Cyprus . Kuwait did not release the 17 prisoners , and the hijackers were allowed to leave Algiers
Kuwait Airways Flight 422
Kuwait Airways Flight 422
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