Irish Sunday Mirror

Hijacked jet finally home

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A PLANE hijacked 40 years ago at the height of a militant group’s campaign against West Germany has returned home.

THE dpa news agency reported most parts of the Boeing 737 arrived yesterday in the city of Friedrichs­hafen, where they will be displayed at the Dornier Museum.

A Palestinia­n group demanding the release of members of West Germany’s Red Army Faction hijacked a Mallorca to Frankfurt flight in 1977.

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