Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. LOT Polish Airlines Flight 165 hijacking was the hijacking of a LOT Polish Airlines that occurred on August 30, 1978. The hijackers from East Germany (GDR / DDR) were seeking political asylum in West Germany (FRG / BRD). The plane landed safely, and the primary hijacker was sentenced to time served, the nine months he had already served during pretrial detention. On August 30, 1978, a Polish LOT Polish Airlines Tupolev Tu-134 airliner with 63 passengers making Flight 165 from Gda sk, Poland, to East Berlin's Schönefeld Airport was hijacked by GDR citizens Hans Detlef Tiede and his girlfriend Ingrid Ruske.