Moroni residents from the Comoro Islands and some tourists, including a group of fully equipped scuba divers, saved 52 of 175 passengers aboard Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961.
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Details: Hijackers ordered the pilot to take them to Australia and refused to heed warnings about the 767 range and fuel load.. this is what happened when they ran out of fuel.
Facts wrong The information given is wrong, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_961
and it's references for more correct info.
In particular information here suggests it was one of the hijackers flying which is not true. Both pilots were at the controls when the plane hit.
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Dave
Details According to "I-Witness Video", the aircraft was hijacked after the terrorists entered the cockpit, assaulted the crew and hauled them out of the cockpit. Then, one terrorist flew the craft for a time until running out of fuel. he then dead-sticked the aircraft into the Indian Ocean just off the Comoros islands. It's a miracle that many people survived, if any.
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