S2 Ep4: Feuerzauber: Lufthansa Hijack, Part 2

Covert

Audioboom Studios

History, Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The hunt for the Landshut continues as the SAS and GSG-9 follow the hijacked plane around the Middle East. And just when they thought it was all over, something unfathomable happened: murder. Their carefully rehearsed plan can still work - but now lives are really on the line.

This episode is sponsored by:
Lightstream
Duke Cannon (Code: COVERT)

Covert's theme is "Anxiety" by Kai Engel. Music in this episode is "Cenderes", "Morbid Imagination," "aspirato," "Run," and "Something (Bonus Track)" by Kai Engel; "Toxick Spill" and "Unification on Multiplicity" by Ad Serpentae; and "Moving On" and "Someohn" by Ars Sonor.

Sound effects from freesound.org by amorralteixe, Benboncan, laurenmg95, mwilkinsss, InspectorJ, BarkersPinhead, Eelke, EFlexMusic, Australopithecusman, pfranzen, CosmicEmbers, unchaz, RobinHood76 , Puniho, sound_ims, voho, floriangeyer, HolmesAudio, CGEffex, DBKEEBLER, Coral_Island_Studios, blouhond , FunWithSound, sonsdebarcelona, and Audionautics. Additional sound effects from freesfx.co.uk. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	October 16, 1977.
0:06.1	It had been four days since Lufthansa plane 181 was hijacked.
0:11.6	After German forces had chased it to six different countries, the plane had finally
0:16.1	set down for a week in Dubai.
0:19.0	British SAS operatives in German GSG-9 specialists thought they finally had an opening to storm
0:25.7	the plane.
0:26.8	Defence Minister was actually running the whole show in Dubai.
0:30.2	Came down and we did a demonstration for him.
0:32.0	The demonstration was really slick.
0:33.9	He liked it and he gave us a green light to go that night.
0:37.0	The teams had spent days rehearsing the rescue on a model plane.
0:41.0	They would split into small groups and take the plane from all sides, using the element
0:45.4	of surprise.
0:46.9	But before they could, a surprise got them.
0:50.5	We saw the plane taking off and then we were told that the plane had just left on his
0:55.2	own accord.
0:56.2	There was a lot of disappointment.
0:58.2	But Alice and I thought we were going to return to UK.
1:04.4	Welcome to covert, a show about the shadowy world of international espionage and top secret
1:09.5	military operations.
1:11.5	If the hand grenades go off, they could cause a sympathetic explosion.
1:14.5	The whole aircraft could be wrecked.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Audioboom Studios, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Audioboom Studios and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.