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Schleyer was the tenth target of West German terrorists to die in the past year. Another victim was Captain Jurgen Schumann, 37, pilot of the skyjacked Lufthansa jet. In a fit of irrational fury, the terrorist leader, who called himself "Walter Mahmud," killed Schumann with a single pistol shot when the plane was on the ground in Aden, Southern Yemen. Schumann's body was pushed down the plane's emergency exit chute at Mogadishu. Had it not been for the skill of the rescuing commandos, many, if not all, of the terrified hostages might have suffered similar fates. According...
...hour out of Palma, Majorca, Flight 181's captain, Jurgen Schumann, first reported that his plane had been commandeered by terrorists over the French Riviera. The leader of the group screamed into the open radio that he was "Captain Walter Mahmud" and that the craft was now under his "supervision and control." Lufthansa's immediate problem was keeping track of the plane, a Boeing 737 twin jet bound for Frankfurt. It had only a short-range VHP transmitter for intra-European communication and was unable to keep contact with Frankfurt...
...urgent message, "Here is Frankfurt. Establish contact with 181 and let him know that Nicosia-out of order, repeat out of order. He should try for Larnaca or Akrotiri." When the plane touched down at Larnaca a heavily accented voice took over and declared in English, "Here is Captain Mahmud. Refuel the plane. If you will not refuel, I will blow the plane...
...Captain Mahmud," replied the control tower, "here is the Foreign Minister of Cyprus. I beg you in the name of the Cypriot government and people, and in the name of humanity, release all children, women and sick people on board. Please." Then came another voice from the tower: "I am the representative of the Palestinian Liberation Movement in Cyprus. Do you hear me, Captain Mahmud?" Mahmud shouted back: "I do not care who you are! Whoever you are, I do not want to talk...
...fact, Charlie Echo had headed for Aden, capital of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (Southern Yemen), with a ten-minute supply of fuel left. This time the skyjackers refused to take no for an answer when they asked to land. "We are coming in," shouted Mahmud at the Aden tower. "I repeat, we are coming...