Word: dado
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battle in the sky. It was unbelievable." So said Jordanian Businessman Salim Dado after surviving a terrifying ordeal aboard an Iraqi jetliner on Christmas Day. According to officials in Saudi Arabia, where the plane subsequently crashed, 62 of the 107 passengers and crew members on the stricken craft were not so lucky: they died in the crash, and about 20 others were injured, in one of the worst hijacking disasters on record...
...chicken lunch when a man suddenly ran through the cabin toward the cockpit, wildly shouting "Hey, hey, hey, hey!" A plainclothes security officer yelled, "Stop that!," but the battle between as many as four hijackers and half a dozen Iraqi security men had already begun. According to Passenger Dado, the first terrorist then lobbed a grenade into the rear cabin and another into the cockpit, wounding the pilot and co-pilot. Despite the damage to the aircraft, the injured pilot managed to keep it on course for 17 minutes, until he reached a remote desert airfield in northern Saudi Arabia...