History / Reels on Instagram: "November 23, 1996. The scheduled Ethiopian Airlines flight 961 departs from Addis Ababa to Nairobi. There are 175 people on board. Aircraft: Boeing 767-200ER. Everything was going according to plan... until the unthinkable happened. A few minutes after takeoff, three men rise from their seats. They claim they are hijacking a plane. And they demand to fly to Australia. The problem was that there was only enough fuel to get to Nairobi, which was only a couple of hour

ExplosiveZone on Instagram: "Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was a scheduled international flight serving the route Addis Ababa-Nairobi-Brazzaville-Lagos-Abidjan On 23 November 1996, the aircraft serving the flight, a Boeing 767-200ER, was hijacked en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi by three Ethiopians seeking asylum in Australia. Mr Leul Abate, the pilot, tried to persuade the hijacker to land at a nearby airport (like Zanzibar or Nairobi) but they said no. Mr Leul Abate said that if he continu