| TWIN TOWERS | Hijacking description Date: 03 SEP 1996 Type: Tupolev 154 -- The Tu-154 was hijcked by Palestinian male who demanded to be taken to Norway. It landed at Varna Airport at 15:32 were the plane was refueled. Following negotiations, the hijacker also agreed to free the 150 passengers on board. At 18:07 the plane was refuelled and took off for Oslo with the hijacker and the Bulgarian crew on board. In Oslo the hijacker surrendered and asked for political asylum. Departure airport: Beirut International Airport (BEY) (BEY/OLBA), Lebanon Destination airport: Varna Airport (VAR) (VAR/LBWN), Bulgaria Airplane damage: None Location: Oslo-Gardermoen Airport (GEN) (Norway) Phase: En route (ENR) Sources: » BTA, 4-9-1996 aviation-safety.net Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 (registered I-TIGI), also known in the Italian media as the Ustica Massacre ("Strage di Ustica"), was an Italian flight that suffered an in-flight explosion while in route from Bologna, Italy to Palermo, Italy. en.wikipedia.org The Oslo Accords, officially called the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements or Declaration of Principles (DOP), was an attempt to resolve the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict. the Accords were subsequently officially signed at a public ceremony in Washington, DC on 13 September 1993, in the presence of PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and US President Bill Clinton. en.wikipedia.org Oslo City Hall (Norwegian: Oslo rådhus ... |
