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Pan Am flight 73 hijacking  

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  • The takeover of a Pan American World Airways jumbo jet in the predawn hours of September 5, 1986, developed into a tragic 16-hour ordeal. Hijackers linked to the extremist group known as the Abu Nidal Organization killed 22 hostages during the standoff at the Karachi International Airport in Pakistan. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism; Pan Am Flight 73 Hijacking]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-XC0F16KJ-0

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