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Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was a scheduled international flight serving the route Addis Ababa–Nairobi–Brazzaville–Lagos–Abidjan. On 23 November 1996, the aircraft serving the flight, a Boeing 767-200ER, was hijacked en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi by three Ethiopians seeking asylum in Australia.Mr Leul Abate, the pilot, tried to persuade the hijacker to land at a nearby airport (like Zanzibar or Nairobi) but they said no. Mr Leul Abate said that if he continued, his plane would crash int