You never knew what was next."[1]. The Assault (French Title: L'Assaut) is a 2010 drama film about the 1994 hijacking of Air France Flight 8969 and the operation mounted by the Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale (GIGN) to rescue the hostages before the terrorists can use the plane in a suicide attack. The men stated over the aircraft's cockpit radio: We are the Soldiers of Mercy. They threatened to shoot him and throw him out of the door. [1] The men planted eavesdropping devices while others trained long-range "cannon" microphones on the A300's fuselage and windows. [3] Bernard Delhemme returned to flying and worked for Air France for nine years before retiring. [3], Flight attendant Claude Burgniard described the firefight as "the apocalypse". "[1] The hijackers shot the police officer in the head at the top of the boarding stairs. [1] Two hours into the hijacking, the men told the captain to depart for Paris so that they could hold a press conference there. Police confirmed this plan after a raid on a safe house. The occupants of the aircraft were unaware of the GIGN's true motives, and the militants were confused about why the press had not yet arrived. The tension in the air was as thick on the tarmac of the Marseilles Provence Airport. Favier explained in an interview that the press conference was an important tactic as it allowed the passengers to be moved to the rear of the aircraft. The captain could not take off because the aircraft boarding stairs were still attached to the plane and the Algerian authorities were blocking the runway with parked vehicles. The hijackers did not realise that the doors of the A300 could be opened from the outside. 51-year-old Bernard Delhemme was the captain of the flight. Burgniard stated that Bill was "a little bit simple" and "more of a goatherd than a terrorist." [1][3] Just before midnight, Balladur told the President of Algeria, Liamine Zéroual, that France was ready to receive the Air France flight. And this information was very worrying. The men were dressed as Algerian presidential police; they wore blue uniforms with Air Algérie logos. [3] The GIGN's concussion grenades temporarily blinded and deafened occupants, allowing the GIGN to storm the aircraft. [1], While using Delhemme to speak for them,[1] the hijackers asked for 27 tons of fuel; the aircraft needed approximately 9 tons to fly to Paris from Marseille. He organised a group of thirty men with three passenger boarding stairs to rush the aircraft and take it over. [3] In the morning, French Prime Minister Édouard Balladur flew to Paris.[1]. [3] The men were dressed as Algerian presidential police; they wore blue uniforms with Air Algérie logos. Witness accounts said that they "terrorised" non-Algerians. [1], As the hijacking progressed, the passengers recognised the personalities of the hijackers. As a result, Air France’s flights to Algiers had crews entirely made of people who volunteered for the route. On March 28, 1981, Garuda Indonesian Airlines flight GA 206 DC-9 “Woyla” was en route from Palembang to Medan, a domestic flight between two Indonesian cities. The GIGN operatives servicing the aircraft were disguised as airport personnel. At that point, three of the four hijackers were fatally shot. Abderrahmane Meziane Chérif, the Minister of the Interior of Algeria, came to the airport control tower to begin negotiating with the hijackers, who were using the captain to speak for them. According to Delhemme, he asked for a glass of water from the attendant to ease the pilots' parched throats. A small group of hijackers, armed to the teeth, were identified as the targets of this mission. December 2019 marks the 25th anniversary of the Air France flight 8969 hijacking, perpetrated by four members of … Air France Flight 8969 was an Air France flight that was hijacked on 24 December 1994 by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria (GIA) at Houari Boumediene Airport, Algiers, Algeria.wikipedia. French Prime Minister Édouard Balladur said that the events unfolded "exceptionally well". Yahia, the leader, had given his name, so the passengers called him by that name. [1] Several passengers said all but one of the hijackers had no beards and closely cropped hair. New information arrived at the Consulate General of France in Oran, Algeria, via a mole in the GIA: We received this information directly from members of the Algerian secret service. "[3] The airline knew that the chef had been murdered as it was listening in on the conversations between the aircraft and the control tower. In an interview, Delhemme suggested that the hijackers would probably have said this anyway to prevent the crew from taking action against them. He recalled putting his overcoat over his head so he would not see the tracer bullets and other occurrences during the raid. Air France Flight 8969 was an Air France flight that was hijacked on 24 December 1994 by the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) at Houari Boumedienne Airport, Algiers, Algeria, where they killed three passengers, with the intention to blow up the plane over the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Air traffic controllers in the tower secretly communicated to the crew of Flight 8969 to tell the hijackers that they didn't have enough fuel to make it all the way to Paris." [1][8], The Algerian police used night vision devices to identify the lead hijacker, who was Abdul Abdullah Yahia. Zahida Kakachi recalled Lotfi calmly trying to convert her and another stewardess to Islam, though Kakachi was only pretending so that she would not enrage him.[3]. F-GBEC, the aircraft involved in the hijacking, CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (, Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale, Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Learn how and when to remove this template message, List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft, "ASN Aircraft accident Airbus A300B2-1C F-GBEC Marseille–Marignane Airport (MRS)", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBzxzyFhU2w. Burgniard said that she does not wear the medal, but that she felt like she deserved it. The terrorists' true aim was to crash the plane in Paris. [3] Bossuat received minor injuries; the dead bodies of two hijackers had shielded Delhemme and Bossuat from gunfire. Their presence originally did not cause any alarm. When the aircraft reached Marseille, the National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN), a counter-terror unit of the French National Gendarmerie, stormed the plane and killed all four hijackers. Delhemme said that the hijacker could have killed him and his colleagues out of spite, but did not. [1], All of the hijackers had been killed. [3] Jean-Paul Borderie was the copilot, and Alain Bossuat was the flight engineer. The GIGN squad practiced ent… [1][2], Algeria was in a state of civil war at the time of the hijacking. 13 passengers wounded, Once the hijackers noticed the boarding stairs moving towards them, they recognised the imminent assault. [3] The Flight 8969 aircraft landed at 3:33 am. [1][3] Favier's group asked the hijackers if they would rather do a press conference in Marseille instead of Paris, since all of the major media outlets had bureaux in Marseille. [1] En route to Majorca, the GIGN operatives were able to familiarise themselves with the A300 in preparation for storming the aircraft. A third team of eight would open the front right door. The terrorists murdered three passengers and their intention was to blow up the plane over the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The 1995 metro bombings in Paris and the hijacking of Air France flight 8969 in 1994 were both masterminded by the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), and brought the Algerian Civil War to … [3] The hijackers recited Quran verses and tried to reassure the Algerian passengers. [3] At one point, the hijackers dropped the demand for the release of the FIS party leaders. [1] Burgniard described To as "the real foreigner on this plane". Flight attendant Claude Burgniard recalled that everyone was relieved when the aircraft departed because they thought the crisis was over. Incredible footage of the GIGN raid of the hijacked Air France Flight 8969 in 1994. Yahia entered the cabin to choose a fourth person to kill. Check out Military.com's original video series today. [3], As a result of the damage to the aircraft, the A300 was written off. Passengers who were released in Algiers stated that the A300 had been rigged with explosives. Therefore, he received the nickname "Madman" from the passengers. [1] Charles Pasqua said in an interview that the French government had decided that the aircraft was not going to leave Marseille, regardless of the consequences. [12], Most of the passengers were Algerians; 138 of the passengers were Algerian citizens.A A significant number of the passengers were French people leaving Algeria. Through Beugnet, they demanded that unless the Algerian government cleared the A300 for takeoff before 9:30 pm, they would kill one passenger every 30 minutes, starting with Beugnet. An explosion in this position would result in many more casualties than in the earlier, remote location. Delhemme recalled that the cockpit only had himself, the flight engineer, and the last hijacker. [3], During the night, Spanish authorities allowed the French military to send its forces to Majorca, Spain, which was as close to Algeria as was possible without being accused of interfering in the situation. Julien Leclercq’s thriller The Assault dramatizes the 1994 hijacking of Air France Flight 8969, during which four terrorists took over a Paris-bound plane in Algiers, intending to crash it into the Eiffel Tower. The hijackers offered to release the remaining Algerian passengers, but the Algerians refused to leave the aircraft. Zahida Kakachi, a passenger, recalled seeing members of the Special Intervention Group (GIS), known as "ninjas", outside the aircraft. Delhemme recalled that when the flight attendant next appeared with refreshments, she whispered to him that two passengers, not one, had died. According to Kakachi, the passengers were silent and began to feel panicked. [1] Favier explained in an interview that the enemy was arriving in friendly territory, and the power difference would be a key element in the struggle. Through the cockpit window, a hijacker fired upon the stairs containing the forward GIGN team. [1], Captain Delhemme made a tour of the cabin at about 2:00 am the next morning to check on the situation; he said that the cabin was "calm" during that time. The aircraft approached Marseille during the morning of 26 December. Kakachi remembered that the police officer, seated two rows behind her, was hesitant as he did not know what they were going to do. Burgniard recalled that the hijackers, in the cockpit, seemed excited and "like kids". The GIGN squad practised entering the A300 before Flight 8969 arrived in Marseille. With Sean Pertwee, Jean Paul Borderie, Claude Burgniard, Yasmina. Delhemme recalled that one passenger who was refusing to leave said that he thought the crew would be killed if he did, and Delhemme believes that the passengers' motives were sincere. When the aircraft moved, the GIGN had to quickly reorganise its forces. [3], At noon, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alain Juppé, organised a crisis team, and Charles Pasqua, Interior Minister of France, met his aides. You have no notifications. Demolition experts determined that the plane was likely rigged in a way that would cause it to explode. Christophe Morin, a flight attendant, recalled that the GIGN ordered passengers and crew to get down as low as possible with their hands over their heads, hide, and then to not move. [3], The French government wanted to bring French military personnel into Algeria to safely resolve the hijacking, but the Algerian government would not allow foreign military to land on Algerian soil to resolve an Algerian political crisis. Burgniard remembered that the occupants wondered why Bill was there and that they saw Bill appearing as if he wondered why he was there, as well. By 26 December, the French government had received information stating that the hijackers had planned to attack Paris. [3], Seven hours into the hijacking, the cabin was calm but tense; at that point, few of the passengers knew that two people had been killed. Once they had taken control of the aircraft, the hijackers forced the women to cover their heads, including the cabin crew members. The hijacking of Garuda Indonesia Flight 206 DC-9 Woyla (PK-GNJ) was an incident occurred on March 28, 1981 when it was hijacked by five terorrists. On the 24th December 1994 four armed men boarded Air France Flight 8969 which was due to depart Algiers-Houari Boumediene Airport (ALG/DAAG) for Paris-Orly Airport (ORY/LFPO) at 11:15 am. The terrorists murdered three passengers and their intention was to blow up the plane over the Eiffel Tower in Paris. [3], GIGN commando Philippe Bardelli was leading a column up the front right stairs, as that team was tasked with throwing stun grenades in the cockpit, when a 7.62 × 39 mm bullet from an AK-47 hit his drawn pistol and detonated the cartridges; Bardelli later remarked that his pistol which was hit saved his life since such AK-47 rounds were able to penetrate the GIGN's helmet visors. [citation needed] After a short delay in repositioning the stairs, GIGN forces were able to enter. The hostage drama began on Christmas Eve as Air France Flight 8969 prepared for a scheduled 11:15 a.m. departure for Paris. An elderly Algerian man told the TF1 network that the hijackers "had a kind of art in their terror. Adam Fitzgerald. He believes the bonds between the hijackers and hostages helped save lives of passengers and crew in the conflict. When the hijackers forced the captain to ask for the boarding stairs to be removed, the Algerian authorities refused, determined not to give in to any of the hijackers' demands. Charles Pasqua, then the Minister of the Interior, said that throughout the ordeal the crew "rose to the occasion". Air France had asked government officials if it absolutely had to continue flying to Algeria; by the time of the hijacking, they had not received a reply. But I have no choice. It doesn't exist officially. [3] At 5:35 pm, Favier radioed to the tower that the incident was over; the incident unfolded in 54 hours. The hijackers returned fire, attacking the GIGN forces. In an interview, Denis Favier explained that there likely was a mutual recognition and "respect" between the hijackers and the hostages. [3], The Algerian authorities still refused to agree to the hijackers' demands. [3], This was a tactical disadvantage for the GIGN; the positions were based on the aircraft being parked where the French authorities ordered the placement of the A300. Delhemme said that when the forces entered the aircraft, they ordered him to put his hands on his head. At this point, the hijackers began targeting the French passengers; there were two staff members of the French Embassy in Algiers on board the flight, a secretary and a chef. The verses were prayers for the dead. The terrorists murdered three passengers and their intention was to blow up the plane over the Eiffel Tower in Paris. It was the first assumed attempt to use the hijacked aircraft itself, loaded with fuel, as a mega aerial bomb and it occurred almost at the same time when Bojinka Plot was foiled in the other side of the world – in the Philippines. The participants fired hundreds of bullets. [7], The hijackers released some of the passengers, mainly women with young children and those with severe medical conditions. The request indicated to the French authorities that the aircraft was going to be used as a firebomb or to fly the aircraft to an Islamic country sympathetic to the hijackers' cause. Yahia, frustrated by the absence of the press and sensing the authorities were up to something, ordered the pilot to move the aircraft. The hijackers knew the negotiators were in the control tower, so through the side window of the cockpit, they began to fire automatic machine guns towards the control tower. Over 170 people still remained on board the plane. Captain Delhemme said that throughout the time in Marseille, there had been tension, but "nothing like what seemed to be about to happen". [3] Several passengers recalled him pleading "Don't kill me, I have a wife and child! The forces planned to isolate the cockpit, with Yahia, from the rest of the aircraft. [3] Three crew members received injuries. [3], During the passport check, the hijackers had noticed that one of the passengers on the flight was an Algerian police officer. Art Animation Comedy Cool Commercials Cooking Entertainment How To Music & Dance News & Events People & Stories Pets & Animals Science & Tech Sports Travel & Outdoors Video Games Wheels & Wings Other 18+ Only Fashion Another passenger said the hijackers "seemed excited, very euphoric" and that they told the occupants that they would teach the French and the world a lesson and show what they were capable of doing. The terrorists murdered three passengers and their intention was to blow up the plane over the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The pilot was eventually ordered to fly the plane to Marseilles, France and the … Feb 16, 2013 - Flight 8969 of an unnamed airline that flies out of France.Public Use from National Geographic There was insufficient fuel on board the plane to reach Paris, because the auxiliary power unit had been running since the hijackers took over the plane, so a refuelling stop was scheduled at Marseille Provence Airport. They had hijacked the aircraft because the national airline Air France was a symbol of France, which they viewed as infidel foreign invaders. Categories. Delhemme parked the aircraft at the foot of the airport control tower and in close proximity to the terminal and other aircraft. [1][9] The door open warning light in the cockpit indicated to the pilots that another passenger had been murdered. a hijacked Air France flight 1994 terrorist attack Abdul Abdullah Yahia AFR 8969 Air France 8969 Hijacking the hijack of the Paris-Algiers flight. [3] The hijackers fired through the skin of the aircraft. The French government were informed of the events. The plan presaged 9/11, and The Assault brings to mind Paul Greengrass’ United 93, a similarly sinewy account of a real-life hostage situation. Settings WELCOME_INDEX, Bing [Bot] NO_PMS_INFO Air France Flight 8969 Hijacking - GIGN Raid. Air France Flight 8969 was an Air France flight that was hijacked on 24 December 1994 by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria (GIA) at Houari Boumediene Airport, Algiers. Delhemme said that, after the hijacking ordeal had run its course, he refused to leave with his hands on his head and be "punished like a child". [10] The remaining hijacker kept the GIGN at bay for 20 minutes, but he eventually ran out of ammunition and died from a gunshot wound. French special forces storming the hijacked Air France plane on Dec. 24, 1994. He felt that the French government held responsibility for solving the problem as the aircraft belonged to a French airline and almost a third of the passengers were French. Captain Delhemme recalled that his first contact with the passenger cabin during the hijacking was when a flight attendant, allowed into the cockpit, asked the pilots if they needed anything. Air France Flight 8969 was an Air France flight that was hijacked on 24 December 1994 by the Armed Islamic Group (AIG) at Houari Boumedienne Airport, Algiers, Algeria, where the terrorists murdered three passengers, with the intention to blow up the plane over the Eiffel Tower in Paris. She said his role as a hijacker was "an error in casting". [1] Favier said that he determined that the operation was a success since none of the GIGN received fatal injuries. [3], A few minutes after the beginning of the assault, most of the passengers had escaped. One hijacker was killed instantly. When the aircraft reached Marseille, the National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN), a counter-terror unit of the French National Gendarmerie, stormed the plane and killed all four hijackers. Air France Flight 8969 Hijacking (GIGN Raid) | Military.com In order to force the Algerian government to comply with their demands, the hijackers approached the police officer and told him to follow them. Claude Burgniard, a flight attendant, recalled noticing that the "police" were armed and one of them had dynamite showing, which she considered to be unusual as the Algerian police were not normally armed when carrying out checks. [3], 3 passengers were already dead prior to the raid [1] The French government sent Yahia's mother to plead for him to release the passengers, in the hope that she could persuade her son to give in,[1] but the tactic backfired. It had grown dark outside and the aircraft was surrounded by spotlights. Balladur allowed Favier to take whatever actions he felt were necessary; after the hijackers fired at the control tower, Favier decided to begin the raid. Yahia insisted that the plane would fly to Marseille, take on fuel, then fly to Paris for the press conference; reassured, Delhemme prepared for takeoff. Philippe Legorjus, a former Air France security adviser, said in an interview that the airline employees "lived through [the event] with great emotion". French Prime Minister Édouard Balladur was recalled from his Christmas holiday in Chamonix, France, and other government officials were also summoned from their vacations. They discovered the aircraft doors were not blocked or booby trapped. The terrorists murdered three passengers and their intention was to blow up the plane over the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Flight 8969 of an unnamed airline that flies out of France.Public Use from National Geographic At this point, the attendant whispered to Delhemme that the hijackers had killed a passenger. Burgniard recalled that the hijackers, in particular one called "Lotfi", disliked seeing a lack of adherence to their Islamic beliefs; according to Burgniard, the hijackers objected to men and women sitting together and sharing the same toilets and women having their heads uncovered. She remembered that To was not intimidated by the hijackers and she believed that this attitude upset the hijackers. Instead, the hijackers opened the door and fired around the aircraft. Flight 8969 Hijacking Gign Raid Video Dailymotion Air France Flight 8969 Wikivisually Air France Flight 8969 Wikivisually The Assault Blu Ray Review Cine Outsider Flight 8969 Gign S Greatest Hour Sofrep Air France Flight 8969 Roblox ... Air France Flight 8969 Hijacking On Dec 24 94 Prelude To The Their presence originally did not cause any alarm. The pilots now attempted to defuse the situation by talking to the hijackers and trying to gain their trust. [4], On 24 December 1994, at Houari Boumedienne Airport in Algiers, four armed men boarded Air France Flight 8969 which was due to depart for Orly Airport, Paris at 11:15 am. Air France Flight 8969 has been hijacked. Later, at one point during the flight, the men placed one pack of dynamite in the cockpit and one pack under a seat in the middle of the aircraft, then linked them with detonator wire. [1] The media began arriving at the airport to cover the crisis. [3], By 5:00 pm, the authorities had not delivered any amount of fuel to the A300. Air France Flight 8969 was a regular flight en route to Orly Airport, Paris, from Houari Boumedienne Airport in Algeria with 236 occupants (including passengers, crew, and hijackers). Burgniard recalled that the airport was dark and that she only saw the lights of the A300 and a car that the A300 followed. Meanwhile, the GIGN operatives were not sure which men were the hijackers and how many were still alive, so they considered all male passengers as potentially being hijackers. The French authorities deliberately led the aircraft away from the terminal and into a remote corner of the airport. This episode tells the story of Air France Flight 8969 which was an Air France flight that was hijacked on December 24, 1994 at Houari Boumedienne Airport in Algiers by four armed men dressed as Algerian policemen. This was to create an area for the GIGN during the storming of the aircraft. Air France Flight 8969 Hijacking July 31, 2020 air france flight 8969 hijacking air france flight 8969 hijacking - gign raid air france flight 8969 hijacking documentary air france flight 8969 hijacking video Philippe Legorjus, who at the time was the airline's security adviser, recalled that glass shattered all around the negotiators. Zahida Kakachi, a passenger, recalled that the hijackers began reciting verses from the Quran on the public address system. According to Burgniard, Lotfi had a "peculiar" character, "was always on a knife edge", and "the most fanatic" and "the most fundamentalist" of the hijackers. Yahia felt reluctant to kill a fourth passenger at that point, saying "I don't want to do this. The seizure of aircraft, especially of national flag carriers, has long been viewed as an attack against the state in which they are registered. Allah has selected us as his soldiers. 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[1] Grenades erupted and smoke went through the cabin. The pilots and most of the passengers were not aware at first that the man had been killed. Air France Flight 8969 was an Air France flight that was hijacked on 24 December 1994 by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria (GIA) at Houari Boumediene Airport, Algiers, Algeria. From Foster Care to a Doctor Serving the Country: Meet Commander Nguyen, Father, Veteran Gunned Down on Cell Phone Video, Israel Pounds Gaza as Fighting Enters Second Week, 'I, Sniper' Filmmakers Talk About DC Sniper New Docuseries, SpaceX Successfully Launches 28th Batch of Starlink Satellites, National Relay Honoring Fallen Military, First Responders, Coast Guard, Navy Encounter Armed Iranian Speedboats in Strait of Hormuz, Pentagon Says Video Released of Pyramid-Shaped UFOs is Authentic. Terrorist attack Abdul Abdullah Yahia AFR 8969 Air France plane on Dec. 24, 1994, at around am... 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