Lufthansa Flight 181 was a Lufthansa Boeing 737-230 Adv aircraft named Landshut that was hijacked on October 13 , 1977 , by four members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( who called themselves Commando Martyr Halime ) . On October 18 , in coordination with the Barre administration and supported by the Somali military , the West German counter-terrorism group GSG 9 in Mogadishu , Somalia stormed the aircraft . All 86 passengers were rescued . The rescue operation was codenamed '' Feuerzauber '' , the German term for " Fire Magic " . The hijacking was carried out in support of the Red Army Faction and is regarded as part of the German Autumn
Lufthansa Flight 181
Lufthansa Flight 181
Military history of Somalia