Achille Lauro Cruise Ship Terrorist Attack

In other incidents she also suffered two serious collisions in 1953 with the MS Oranje and in 1975 with the cargo ship Youseff and.

Achille lauro cruise ship terrorist attack. The terrorists took control of the cruise ship in the Mediterranean off Egypt as it was sailing from Alexandria to Port Said Egypt. Achille Lauro hijacking hijacking of the Italian cruise ship the MS Achille Lauro on Oct. The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro.

A cruise ship is boarded and commandeered while perpetrators hold and potentially injure or kill passengers if demands are not met as in the Achille Lauro attack. With Karl Malden Lee Grant EG. One notable attack occurred on October 7 1985 when four men represent-ing the PLF hijacked the Achille Lauro.

As part of its Learn from the past series SAFETY4SEA remembers the hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985 by four heavily armed Palestinian militants who posed as passengers resulting to the brutal murder of one passenger. 7 1985 by four Palestinian militants associated with a faction of the Palestine Liberation Front PLF. Navy F-14 fighters intercept an Egyptian.

The World Cruise Industry Review concluded that the most likely terrorist scenario is the hijacking of a cruise ship and its passengers. Achille Lauro A Mediterranean pleasure cruise turns into a 52-hour nightmare at sea. The families sued the cruise line defendants for failing to have adequate security to protect the passengers from the terrorist attack.

On October 7 1985 four members of one of the PLOs factions the Palestine Liberation Front PLF hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and demanded the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israel. At the end of 1972 her liner service ended and from then onwards she sailed as a full-time cruise ship. Built between 1939 and 1947 as MS Willem Ruys a passenger liner for the Rotterdamsche Lloyd she was hijacked by members of the Palestine Liberation Front in 1985.

Since then Lisa and her sister Ilsa have been the face of how close to home terrorism can hit. Ultimately the hijackers killed one passenger were unsuccessful in achieving their demands for the release of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons and were convicted in. A tragic example of maritime terrorism.