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On the 23rd of November 1996, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961, a Boeing 767 en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi, was hijacked by three Ethiopian men seeking asylum in Australia. The hijackers demanded the plane fly to Australia, ignoring the pilots' warnings about insufficient fuel. After hours in the air, the aircraft ran out of fuel and crashed into the Indian Ocean near Grande Comore Island. Of the 175 passengers and crew, 125 died, including the hijackers, while 50 survived the impact and dit