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10.02.2017
exclusive scrapping of the "Landshut" is to be prevented
Foreign Minister Gabriel calls the airplane abducted in 1977 a "living witness" of the story: The Boeing 737 stands flugunfähig in Brazil, the scrapping threatens.
The Federal Foreign Office is signaling its willingness to help.
Four decades after the abduction and storming of the Lufthansa aircraft "Landshut" in October 1977,
efforts are being made in the federal government and in the CDU leadership
to prevent the decay and potentially threatening scrapping of the 47-year-old machine.
After a decade of deployment as a passenger and later as a cargo aircraft,
the now renamed "Landshut" has been flying incapable and in a moderate condition in the Brazilian Fortaleza.
It is said to be auctioned with other aircraft in March.
Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel told the FAZ: "The 'Landshut' is stranded at the end of its active life in Latin America and will never fly again, but it is a living witness of an important moment in the history of the young Federal Republic."
"We want to see how we can help remember the 'Landshut' and keep it at this difficult time."
Gabriel recalled the "dramatic wanderlust" of the abducted "Landshut",
the liberation movement in Mogadishu,
the threat Through the RAF terrorism,
the "relief on the liberation" of the people on board and the mourning for the victims.
Finished plans for the possible purchase and return of "Landshut" do not seem to exist in the federal government yet.
Deputy CDU Federal President Julia Klöckner advocates the purchase of the aircraft by Germany.
"There are good reasons for our country to buy the aircraft in the forthcoming auction action," she told the FAZ.
The "Landshut", the successful liberation of the hostages, the handling of terrorism were "a piece of time history".
, others would have to pay for the restoration.