Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 Hijacking Ends in Tragic Crash Off Comoros Coast

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FF Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767-260(ER) (ET-AIZ) | The Hijacking, Ocean Landing Incident

The saddest plane accident 😞 On November 23, 1996, #ethiopian Airlines Flight 961, operated by a Boeing 767, was hijacked by three Ethiopians en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi.Identified by Ethiopian authorities as two unemployed high school graduates and a nurse with no known organizational ties, the hijackers demanded to be flown to Australia. Despite the captain's repeated explanations that there was insufficient fuel for such a trip, the hijackers persisted, based on an in-flight magazin