This episode examines the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847 and the dramatic hostage crisis that unfolded in Beirut. At the ...

On this day, June 14, in 1985, Trans World Airline Flight 847 was hijacked by Hezbollah terrorists. The hijackers demanded to know the identities of people “with Jewish-sounding names.” The terrorists ...

Lebanese political sources revealed on Tuesday that Germany had released, Mohammad Ali Hammadi, a Hizbullah member serving a life sentence for the killing a US Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem in 1985.

This made-for-television film documents the takeover of the TWA airliner in flight from Athens to Rome in 1985. The focus is on the flight attendant, Uli Derickson, whose courage and hope helped save ...

The news bulletin on Lebanese state radio late last week was cryptic and vague, perhaps intentionally so: Beirut judicial authorities would prosecute three of the most wanted men in America, the ...

A 65-year-old Lebanese man arrested recently in Greece in connection with the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847, in which a US Navy diver was killed, was released after police said it was a case of ...

The Taking Of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story, also marketed as The Flight on video, is a 1988 made-for-TV film based on the actual hijacking of TWA Flight 847 as seen through the eyes of Uli ...