Achille Lauro Cruise Ship Hijackers

Brochures show the twin-stack Achille Lauro to weigh.

Achille lauro cruise ship hijackers. The Achille Lauro left Genoa Italy on October 3 for a 12-day cruise of the Mediterranean Sea. The hijackers took the more than 400 passengers and crew members hostage and demanded the release of 50 Palestinians from Israeli prisons. On November 30 1994 she caught fire while en route to South Africa off the coast of Somalia.

8 the Syrian government refused permission for Achille Lauro to dock at Tartus. Learn how your comment data is processed. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak persuaded the hijackers to surrender but not before they shot to death a wheelchair-bound Jewish passenger from the United States.

Aboard were 748 passengers and several hundred crew. Braynard a Long Island marine historian said of the Achille Lauro. On 7 October 1985 four members of the Palestine Liberation Front PLF hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro when it was in the Mediterranean Sea en route from Alexandria Egypt to Port Said.

The Achille Lauro headed back towards Port Said and after two days of negotiations the hijackers agreed to abandon the liner in exchange for safe conduct. On October 7 1985 four members of one of the PLOs factions the Palestine Liberation Front PLF hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and demanded the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israel. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam.

Officials say Abu Abbas a notorious Palestinian terrorist who masterminded the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship in the Mediterranean. The Achille Lauro left Genoa Italy on October 3 for a 12-day cruise of the Mediterranean Sea. You must be logged in to post a comment.

The hijackers then murdered the 69-year-old Leon Klinghoffer a retired wheelchair-bound Jewish American businessman and forced the ships barber and waiter to throw his body and wheelchair overboard. The next day October 10 the four hijackers boarded an Egypt Air Boeing 737 airliner. As part of its Learn from the past series SAFETY4SEA remembers the hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985 by four heavily armed Palestinian militants who posed as passengers resulting to the brutal murder of one passenger.