What the records say
- When
- 7 Oct 1985
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 2.00° N, 47.00° E
Placed at the area around the building it links, MS Achille Lauro.
Summary
The cruise ship Achille Lauro is hijacked in the Mediterranean Sea by four heavily armed Palestinian terrorists. One passenger, American Leon Klinghoffer, is killed.
Achille Lauro hijacking
1985 Palestinian Liberation Front hijacking
The Achille Lauro hijacking took place on 7 October 1985, when the Italian ocean liner MS Achille Lauro was hijacked by four men representing the Palestinian Liberation Front (PLF) off the coast of Egypt, as she was sailing from Alexandria to Ashdod, Israel. A 69-year-old Jewish-American man in a wheelchair, Leon Klinghoffer, was murdered by the hijackers and thrown overboard.
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