LOT Polish Airlines Flight 165 hijacking the Republic"), a crime under GDR law. Ruske and Tiede then concluded that they were trapped and that prison awaited them if they returned to East Germany. So they developed a plan to hijack a plane headed for East Berlin's Schönefeld Airport and force a landing at the U.S. Air Force base at Tempelhof Airport in West Berlin. They bought a toy starting pistol at a Polish flea market, and then booked three tickets on LOT Polish Airlines Flight 165 from Gdańsk, Poland, to East Berlin. On 30 August 1978, Tiede and Ruske hijacked a Polish LOT Tupolev Tu-134 airliner
Airline (brand) Airline brand. The Eastwood reissued guitars are built with chambered mahogany bodies as opposed to the hollow fiberglass (Res-O-Glas) bodies used for the original made by Valco. This difference in body material gives the reissue a more traditional electric guitar feel and tone, whereas the original Airline is noted for its unconventional playing feel and response. The reissue also has an adjustable truss rod, accessible from the headstock, while the original had a non-adjustable steel reinforced neck. The aesthetic differences between the original and the reissue include: different tuning heads, (the newer model having greenish knobs, as opposed to the