Name the year: Chernenko dies; the Achille Lauro is hi-jacked; a Japanese Air Lines 747 crashes killing 520 people.
Achille Lauro hijacking sought his extradition. Following the murder of Leon Klinghoffer, the Klinghoffer family founded the Leon and Marilyn Klinghoffer Memorial Foundation, in cooperation with the Anti-Defamation League. The "Achille Lauro" hijacking has inspired a number of dramatic retellings: Achille Lauro hijacking The "Achille Lauro" hijacking happened on October 7, 1985, when the Italian MS "Achille Lauro" was hijacked by four men representing the Palestine Liberation Front off the coast of Egypt, as she was sailing from Alexandria to Ashdod, Israel. A 69-year-old Jewish American man in a wheelchair, Leon Klinghoffer, was murdered by the hijackers and thrown overboard. The hijacking sparked
Achille Lauro hijacking the mouth of the Suez Canal 150 miles to the east. Passengers who stayed aboard the "Achille Lauro", such as Rene Sprecher, would later report of watching a camera crew record what appeared to be film footage with people running on and off the ship firing guns with blanks. At the end of this a car arrived and a man took two wrapped packages from it carrying them aboard ship. It was later theorized that this is how weapons were brought aboard. The taking of the "Achille Lauro" was triggered by a surprise discovery and quickly turned violent. On Monday,