![]() And then by the time George got the gun from the secret policeman and fired two shots into the ceiling, we’re ready to crash land, and George takes over the plane. The plane came from 8,000 feet 400 feet, ready to crash land. And three people - the co-pilot, the engineer and the radio man - pounding his head with anything they can get their hands on. Now the cop is on his back, in the small cockpit and George is on top of him. There is absolutely no way to even construct any more incredible story that how many things had to stay in line and happen the way it happened." And as he did, he pulled the trigger and the gun misfired. The secret policeman was the fifth man, with a loaded gun waiting for somebody to enter. " opens the door and he goes in and he expects to find four people. Because it’s going to be execution anyway, and we just didn’t want to go through the torture." We made a decision, that if we are going to get captured, if there is a way to commit suicide, we’d rather do that than being captured alive. (Reproduced from “Freedom for All to Freedom”) Anais suffered a broken leg during the hijacking. On whether he, his wife and the rest of the group were afraid Frank Iszak and his wife Anais Iszak are pictured in 1956 at a West German hospital following the hijacking. And then that’s when the conspiracy began." So I talked to George, my co-conspirator, that, how about escaping? George says, you know it’s impossible. ![]() And there was no way because the Iron Curtain was so impregnable, it was built with such powerful system that it was absolutely impossible to escape. ![]() "The dream that era of my generation was how to get out of here, how to escape, how to leave the land of this darkness and hopelessness. On planning his escape from communist Hungary He joins Here & Now's Robin Young to discuss his dramatic story. In 2008, Iszak published "Free for All to Freedom," a chronicle of his account, and now, filmmakers are preparing a movie adaptation of the events. When they finally landed the plane, the bruised and bloodied group had no idea where they had landed, and were prepared to commit suicide if it turned out that they hadn't made it to West Germany. Not only was there a KGB officer on board, but they also had to commandeer the plane, avoid the Alps, deal with precipitous drops and finally an empty fuel tank. On July 13, 1956, they boarded a small plane, and proceeded to launch the world's first known hijacking. The two convinced four others to join their plan. In his book, Frank Iszak pictures the original article documenting his flight in The New York Times. ![]() With no hope of freedom and deteriorating conditions under the communist-ruled country, he hatched a far-fetched plan with a fellow laborer who happened to be a former fighter pilot: If they couldn't crawl under the Iron Curtain, they would fly over it. (Nearly 60 years ago, Frank Iszak was a 25-year-old forced laborer in a Hungarian brick factory. Facebook Email The aircraft, identified as "HA-LIG," is parked on the tarmac of the Manching NATO Airbasw in Ingolstadt, W. ![]()
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