In the fall of 1948, shortly before the end of the civil war in Greece, six young leftists traveled to Athens, boarded a plane to Thessaloniki, and forced the pilot to fly them to neighboring Yugoslavia, where they would seek political asylum along with other comrades. Their plan went off without a hitch and went down in history as the first hijacking ever.

• ERT
• Elliniko Kentro Kinimatographou
• Socrates Alafouzos
• Vladimiros Kiriakidis
• Stelios Pavlou
• Dimitris Karambetsis
• Aias Manthopoulos
• Gerasimos Skiadaresis
• Christos Kalavrouzos
• Antonis Katsaris