1980s news clips - Screams from hijacked plane

Title

1980s news clips - Screams from hijacked plane

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

1984

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:00:46

Description

Martin Frizell reports on the hijacked Kuwaiti plane (poss. Kuwait Airways Flight 221) stuck at Tehran, Iran (poss. December 1984). Includes the recording of the screams of a hostage on the plane and an interview with Israeli radio engineer, Mickey Gurdus. From a series of news clips from the 1980s used in a retrospective compilation at the end of the decade.

Contributors

Mickey Gurdus; Martin Frizell

Keywords

Aircraft; Iran; Terrorism; Tehran; Kuwait

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