Germany released Terrorist who killed US Navy Diver

[AAP]

what happened to the hijackers? were they all arrested? Has anyone ever hijacked a plane and actually got away with it?

 

[redguru]

From a Terrorism Victims website.

Perhaps nothing so aptly epitomized the chaos of Lebanon for Americans last week as the fate of the body of the young man, said by the hijackers to be a U.S. Marine, who had been murdered on Flight 847. After lying on the tarmac for two hours, the body, with a bullet wound in the head, had been taken by an International Red Cross ambulance to a morgue at the American University Hospital in Muslim West Beirut. U.S. officials, based on the other side of the "green line" in Christian-dominated East Beirut, were unable to retrieve it for 24 hours. Not until Sunday morning did a State Department spokesman announce that the body was at last on its way to a U.S. air base in Spain for identification. Used first as proof of the hijackers' resolve, the stranded corpse had thus become a symbol of the obstacles and divisions that afflict the terrorists' homeland. The hijacking ordeal ended with the escape of the Shi'ite terrorists and the release of the remaining hostages.​

 

[redguru]

BTW, that last link I gave is a very good article about other events happening at the time including the turmoil in Lebanon.