Amin boarded Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 on November 23 , 1996 with 61-year-old Brian Tetley , a colleague who wrote the text for Amin 's photography books , to travel to Nairobi after a business trip to Ethiopia . Hijackers stormed the cockpit of ET-AIZ , the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing B767-260ER used for the flight , and forced the pilot , Leul Abate , to fly east over the Indian Ocean . Amin attempted to rally the passengers to attack the hijackers and confronted the hijackers , trying to stop the scenario . ET-AIZ ran out of fuel and Abate ditched the aircraft off the coast of the Comoros Islands . ET-AIZ broke into pieces , and as Amin was standing , his body hit the airplane wall causing his death . He was 53 . Tetley also did not survive the crash
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961
Mohamed Amin