In the fall of 1948, shortly before the end of the civil war in Greece, six young leftists traveled to Athens, boarded a plane to Thessaloniki, and forced the pilot to fly them to neighboring Yugoslavia, where they would seek political asylum along with other comrades. Their plan went off without a hitch and went down in history as the first hijacking ever.
Socrates Alafouzos
Vladimiros Kiriakidis
Stelios Pavlou
Dimitris Karambetsis
Aias Manthopoulos
Gerasimos Skiadaresis
Christos Kalavrouzos
Antonis Katsaris
Giorgos Mihalakopoulos
Giorgos Moshidis
Yorgos Papadimitrakis
Timos Perlegas
Anna Fonsou
Akis Drakoulinakos
Thodoros Exarhos
Zozo Zarpa
Giorgos Kyritsis
Tasos Kostis
Konstantinos Tsakonas
Cathleen Lyons
Frank Caruso
Dimitris Papagiannis