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John Leigh Testrake
Dec 02, 1927 - Feb 06, 1996 Age: 68
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About John Testrake
American Folk Figure. He was the pilot of a TWA Boeing 727 that was hijacked on June 14, 1985, by Shiite militiamen while en route from Athens, Greece to Rome, Italy. Taking 145 passengers and eight crew members aboard as hostages, the hijackers demanded the release of hundreds of Lebanese from Israeli jails. One passenger, United States Navy diver Robert Stethem , was shot and killed, and thrown out of the door of the plane onto the tarmac. During the ordeal, the hijackers were often photographed by a news crew with a cocked pistol at the head/neck of Captain Testrake. After sitting on the tarmac of Beirut International Airport in Lebanon for more than two weeks, the remaining passengers and crew of flight 847 were released unharmed. The most enduring image of the 17 day ordeal was Captain Testrake being interviewed in the cockpit with a terrorist's pistol held at his temple. He credited his strong religious faith for helping him withstand that ordeal, as well as the cancer that was discovered in 1994.
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Born
12-02-1927
Ripley, Chautauqua County, New York, USA
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02-06-1996
Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA
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