Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ethiopian Airlines Flight 708 was a Boeing 720-060B, due to operate an international scheduled Addis Ababa Asmara Athens Rome Paris passenger service, that experienced a hijacking attempt on 8 December 1972. Minutes after departing from Haile Selassie I International Airport seven members of the Eritrean Liberation Front six men and a woman stood up and tried to gain control of the plane. When security guards there were six of them aboard opened fired at the terrorists, one of them activated a grenade that exploded in the rear part of the fuselage, damaging the rudder controls.