LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Kuwaiti hijacking ends

Genre

Interview

TX Date

20 Apr 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:01:27

Description

Michael O’Neill interviews Sonia Youssef in Kuwait, the wife of Iraqi pilot, Subbhi Youssef, following his release at the end of the hijacking of a Kuwait Airlines Boeing 747 which began on 05/04/88, they stopped at Mashhad in Iran and Larnaca in Cyprus before Algiers in Algeria.

Contributors

Michael O’Neill; Sonia Youssef

Keywords

Iran; Terrorism; Pilots; Aeroplanes; Hostages; Cyprus; Civil aircraft; Kuwait; Algeria; Kuwait Airlines; Algiers; Subbhi Na’im Youssef; Larnaca; Mashhad

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