Border, Escaping, Contemporary Witnesses, West, East

Airplane hijacked

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A passenger plane belonging to Poland’s LOT airline lands in Tempelhof, bringing to an end a hijacking that began in Gdansk. Ingrid Maron is on board – not as a passenger but as one of the hijackers.

She was planning to use forged papers to flee from Gdansk to the West by ferry. When the plan fell apart, she and an acquaintance, Detlev Tiede, decide to escape by hijacking a Polish plane.

In this film, Ingrid talks about how the incredible situation came about.

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  • Café Moskau, Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10718 Berlin
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  • Flughafen Tempelhof, Tempelhofer Damm 1-7, 12107 Berlin
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