Control tower message to hijacked Kuwaiti airliner crew

Title

Control tower message to hijacked Kuwaiti airliner crew

Genre

Speech

TX Date

13 Apr 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:00:21

Description

Before taking off from Larnaca, Cyprus, for Algiers, the hijackers of the Kuwait Airways Flight 422 allowed twelve hostages to go free. Once the plane was airbourne, the control tower at Larnaca sent this message to the crew.

Contributors

Larnaca Air Traffic Control

Keywords

Terrorism; International relations; Aeroplanes; Lebanon; Hostages; Cyprus; Air traffic control; Kuwait; Thailand; Algeria; Larnaca Airport; Kuwait Airways

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