Word: plane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...AVIV, Israel--Five armed Soviets who hijacked a busload of schoolchildren in the Soviet Union and released them in exchange for a plane out of the country surrendered yesterday after landing in Israel with a hostage crew...
...Ilyushin-76 plane landed at Ben-Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv at 5:45 p.m. (10:45 a.m. EST). Israel Army radio said the plane was allowed to land after officials received a request from the Soviet Union...
Army officials said that shortly after the plane landed, two men and a woman came out of the plane and asked for a translator. They then started brief negotiations in which the hijackers surrendered...
State-run Israel radio said the hijackers, described as four Russians and an Armenian with criminal backgrounds, had large sums of money with them. "It seems as though they were involved in a crime before they took over the plane," the radio said...
Just before the plane landed, radio monitors could hear the pilot say: "Ilyushin approaching. Shalom. We are heading for...final runway...