Skyjacker Surrenders in Turkey
Associated Press
ISTANBUL, Turkey — A lone hijacker who forced a West German Lufthansa jetliner to land at Istanbul’s Yesilkoy Airport today and demanded to be flown to Libya surrendered to Turkish authorities, the semiofficial Anatolia news agency reported.
The air pirate, believed to be a Libyan, commandeered the Boeing 727 on a Munich-to-Athens flight and forced it to land in Istanbul, but then freed the 142 passengers aboard and nine crewmen, and finally surrendered himself.
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