Historical Events tagged with "bizarre"
Turns out history loves a label—battles, breakthroughs, and the occasional disaster, all neatly tagged for your browsing pleasure. Because sometimes you just need every weird invention in one place.
Accidents & Tragedies
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 Hijacked and Crashed
November 23rd, 1996 28 years ago
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was hijacked by three armed men on November 23, 1996, shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The aircraft was a Boeing 767, and the hijackers demanded to fly to Australia but diverted to the Comoros Islands. After several hours in the air and running out of fuel, the plane crashed into the Indian Ocean near the Comoros archipelago, resulting in the deaths of 125 individuals onboard, while 50 passengers survived.
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