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FRANKFURT, West Germany
(AP) — A special Pan Am jumbo jet
landed in Frankfurt Sunday with
217 survivors of a hijacking in Kara
chi, Pakistan, which killed at least 15
people, including three Americans.
FBI agents investigating the day
long Friday hijacking were at the air
port to meet the plane and talk to
the 44 Americans aboard “if they
have evidence to present,” said State
Department spokesman Michael
Austrian.
The plane landed at 7:10 p.m.
An Indian man was the first to
come into the airport lounge, where
soft drinks, coffee and cheesecake
awaited survivors.
“It was a harrowing experience,”
said the man, who refused to iden
tify himself. “We had a horrible
time.”
After a brief stopover, the plane
was to fly to London and New York.
Pan Am officials said 72 passengers
would leave the plane in Frankfurt,
18 in London and 127 would go on
to New York.
Four hijackers, believed to be Pal
estinians, seized a Pan Am jetliner
with nearly 400 people aboard at Ka
rachi airport early Friday and de
manded to be flown to Cyprus,
where they wanted to free jailed Pal
estinian terrorists.
The hijacking ended 17 hours
later when the lights went out
aboard the plane and the hijackers
fired at the passengers.
Pakistani security forces were in
control of the plane half an hour;
ter the shooting began.
The J ustice Department on Sain;
day issued arrest warrants for thef
jacket s, charging them with murder
hostage-taking, attempted air piran
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that the Pakistani government is
charge of the case.
Austrian said Federal Bureau
Investigation agents also wanted
talk to passengers to learn how;
prevent similar hijackings in the fir
ture.
Families anxious
for hijack victims’
U.S. homecoming
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(AP) As survivors of the Pan Am
flight seized by Arab terrorists in Pa
kistan dispersed around the globe
Sunday, relatives in the United
States waited impatiently.
Some families in Texas and across
the nation had to endure agonies of
suspense before learning the fate of
their loved ones in the 17-hour or
deal that ended in gunfire with at
least 15 people dead, including three
Americans, and 127 wounded.
Asha Reddy, mother of 12-year-
old Siddhartha Reddy, in Sugar
Land said, “It’s hard for me to wait. I
slept a few hours last night, and I
feel really sick and tired.”
Her son was among 400 hostages
taken Friday on the Boeing 747 at
the airport in Karachi, Pakistan, but
was unhurt after the plane’s lights
went out and the terrorists opened
fire with grenades and automatic
weapons.
Reddy said she had booked a
flight to New York to meet her son,
but that he might be flown to Hous
ton. “Tell (my mother) I love her
and I’m coming home soon,” the
youth said in a telephone interview
Saturday night from Karachi.
Dave Allison, 37, was among those
passengers who fled from the
plane’s escape hatch Friday after the
terrorists opened fire and Pakistani
commandos stormed the plane.
His fiancee, Charlotte Moore, in
Houston, said, “He jumped from the
wing to the ground and when he
landed he twisted his ankle. Then he
couldn’t stand up, so he had to roll
from under the plane.”
She said, “He told me not to worry
if I saw pictures of him on TV with
blood on him — that he had not
been hit, but that it was a real mess."
She said she would fly to West
Germany to join Allison, who was
flown to the U.S. Rhein Main Air
Base in Wiesbaden.
Deev Bhandari of Houston said
he plans to fly to New York to meet
his brother, Dr. Y.S. Bhandari, a
New Jersey neurosurgeon who
sprained his back fleeing the plane
after the shootout.
In Newark, N.J., Dharmesh Patel
said he learned Sunday that his
younger brother, Mrugesh, had sur
vived the shooting and was hospital
ized in Bombay, India, with a leg in
jury.
The younger Patel, who was re
turning to the United States for his
senior year of high school, had spent
the summer with his parents in In
dia. Dharmesh said calls to Pan Am
and the State Department yielded no
information on Mrugesh’s wherea
bouts, but his parents learned where
their son was and called Newark.
Pan American World Airways of
ficials said 44 Americans, most of In
dian or Pakistani ancestry, were
aboard but that the list was not de
finitive.
John Paul II:
Terrorism
must end
COURMAYEUR. Italv (AP)-
From an alpine peak beskk
Mount Blanc, Pope John Paul II
on Sunday said bloody terroris
attacks on a jetliner in Pakistar
and a synagogue in Turkey Id
turned hopes for peace into an
guish.
“It is necessary, without deb
to do everything possible to pm
an end to the incessant escalation
of hatred and terrorism," dit
pontif f said during his noonbb
sing from the / ,687-foot-hipi
rocky peak of Mount Chetif.
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nearby cloud-covered snow) peat
of Mount Blanc, Europe's highest
mountain at 15,711 feet, John
Paul said he was praying for the
souls of the more than three
dozen people killed in the two
terrorist episodes.
The pope said the terrorists
took the “blood of travelin?
brothers, the blcxvd of brothers
gathered in a place of prayer."
“In the face of these horren
dous and almost unbelievable
events, the yearning for peace
turns into anguish," the pope said
during his blessing.
Earlier Sunday, he flew by heir
copter to the Brenva Glacier oil
Mount Blanc’s southern face. *
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his cassock, a cap witli ear flaps
and white snow boots, the pope
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