TWA Flight 847 Endures 17 Days Of Terror

June 1985 Friday morning, just under a half an hour into the flight two terrorist brandished their guns and grenades, TWA flight 847 a Boeing 727 would now be hijacked.

TWA Flight 847 out of Athens to Rome is hijacked by Shiite Muslims who have been identified as members of Islamic Jihad "Holy War" a group of various fundamentalist, operating in Lebanon and other Middle East countries. They have been known to be sympathetic to Iran's revolutionary ruler, Ayatullah Khomeini. Read the rest of the story TWA flight 847