Editing Unit 777 (section)

==EgyptAir Flight 321==
[[Image:777قتال.jpg|thumb|Unit 777]]
On August 23, 1976, three armed terrorists claiming to be from the [[Abd Al-Nasir Movement]] hijacked the [[EgyptAir Flight 321]], a Cairo-Luxor flight, and asked the pilot to land in [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]]. One of the three hijackers was a 21-year-old Palestinian, Mohammed Naguid, who was working in Kuwait.<ref name="mickolus">{{cite book| last=Mickolus| first=Edward F.| date=2009| title=The Terrorist List| publisher=ABC-CLIO}}</ref> They demanded the release of five Libyans imprisoned in Cairo in connection with two assassination attempts.<ref>{{cite web|title=Terrorist Skyjackings: A CIA Report|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/53824134/Terrorist-Skyjackings-A-CIA-Report|website=scribd.com|access-date=2 June 2015}}</ref> The context was the deterioration of relations between [[Egypt]] and [[Libya]] after the [[Yom Kippur War]] due to Libyan opposition to Sadat's peace policy. There had been a breakdown in unification talks between the two governments, which subsequently led to the [[Libyan-Egyptian War]]. Fifteen minutes after takeoff from [[Cairo International Airport]], an Italian pilot called the airport to report that he had received a beam aerial from the Egyptian aircraft heading to Luxor that it had been hijacked and the flight was under terrorist control.

President Sadat ordered the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense to make the necessary decisions to protect the passengers and arrest the terrorists. The Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense quickly flew to Luxor International Airport where they started a secret meeting in the airport's tower, while Major General Abdul Hafiz Al-Bagori, Governor of Qena started negotiations with the three terrorists in order to gain time.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}} During a call between the cockpit and the airport, the pilot complained about a problem in the aircraft - that it had not shown that the aircraft needing refuelling - and that the aircraft needed maintenance. The terrorists were persuaded to allow the aircraft to land in Luxor for refuelling. Negotiations continued until 3 p.m., when the governor told the terrorists that engineers were ready. The engineers were two disguised Sa'ka officers, who went inside and outside the aircraft several times in order to appear to be maintenance workers. Minutes later three officers stormed the aircraft and captured the hijackers.

The force that stormed the aircraft was later announced to be a special unit within the [[Sa'ka Forces]] and further information was classified, the same force which was later named 777.