The most spectacular and largest escape from Communist Czechoslovakia took place on 24 March 1950. Early that morning three České Aerolinie [ČSA] Dakota DC3 passenger aircraft were hijacked in a pre-planned escape by eight former Czechoslovak RAF airmen to escape from Communist persecution, and flown to the US Air Force airbase at Erding in the American Zone of Germany.
This was the world’s first triple aircraft hijack and the first escape from Czechoslovakia where the aircrew themselves hijacked the aircraft. The full story of this daring escape here and here
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