LOT Polish Airlines Flight 165 (1978)

Name: LOT Polish Airlines Flight 165 (1978)
Start: 1978

1978 CE.

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LOT Polish Airlines Flight 165 was a LOT Polish Airlines flight that was hijacked on 30 August 1978. The hijackers from East Germany (GDR) were trying to flee from the GDR and seek political asylum in West Germany (FRG). The plane landed safely, and the primary hijacker was tried and convicted by a West German jury in the United States Court for Berlin and sentenced to time served, the nine months he had already served during pretrial detention. This was the only case heard before the United States Court for Berlin.

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