Air Crash Investigation - African Hijack Season 3 Episode 10
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961, heading from Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) to Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire route) passing through Nairobi (Kenya) Brazzaville (Republic of the Congo) and Lagos (Nigeria) -. Plane: Boeing 767-260ER.
On 23 November 1996, during the flight, the plane was hijacked by 3 men. The men demanded the plane to be flown to Australia, which was very far from there. When the plane was getting closer to Comoros Islands, it began to run out of fuel. The captain tried an emergency landing at Grande Comore, but ran out of fuel before landing. What did exactly happen?