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Oops, some error occurred while uploading your photo(s). We have a volunteer within fifty miles of your requested photo location. Thanks for using Find a Grave, if you have any feedback we would love to hear from you. After age restrictions forced him to retire from TWA in 1987, Testrake flew relief missions for several years for a ministry, Mission Aviation Fellowship. This memorial has been copied to your clipboard. Failed to delete memorial. We have 2 volunteers within fifty miles of your requested photo location. One passenger, United States Navy diver Robert Stethem, was shot and killed, and thrown out of the door of the plane onto the tarmac.

Share this memorial using social media sites or email. Also an additional 2 volunteers within fifty miles. Close this window, and upload the photo(s) again. Resend Activation Email. GREAT NEWS! He credited his strong religious faith for helping him withstand that ordeal, as well as the cancer that was discovered in 1994. The hijackers, demanding the release of hundreds of Lebanese from Israeli jails, often kept a cocked pistol at the nape of Testrake’s neck. Quickly see who the memorial is for and when they lived and died and where they are buried. This account has been disabled. Now I feel like I’m being held hostage in this body,″ Testrake told The Kansas City Star in a recent interview. To suggest a correction or addition, visit the memorial page and click Suggest Edits.

To add a flower, click the “Leave a Flower” button. Instead, within 20 minutes after the Boeing 727 designated Flight 847 took off with 150 passengers and crew members, a band of terrorists armed with pistols and grenades commandeered the plane and threatened to blow it up if Israel did not release Arab prisoners held in southern Lebanon. Pilot Who Became Hero in Hijacking.

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Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. Thanks for your help! Oops, we were unable to send the email. Enter a valid email address and a feedback message. He was the pilot of a TWA Boeing 727 that was hijacked on June 14, 1985, by Shiite militiamen while en route from Athens, Greece to Rome, Italy. Captain Testrake, who had previously brushed aside his fear when a hijacker plopped a bomb in his lap and had gained his captors' respect, later shrugged off the incident. Taking 145 passengers and eight crew members aboard as hostages, the hijackers demanded the release of hundreds of Lebanese from Israeli jails. For memorials with more than one photo, additional photos will appear here or on the photos tab. One of the most indelible and frightening television images of the ordeal occurred when Captain Testrake was leaning out of the cockpit window giving an interview to a news crew at the Beirut airport when one of the hijackers intervened, waving a pistol around the pilot's head. ST. JOSEPH, Mo. Select a place on the map to place the pin.

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Year should not be greater than current year. Are you sure that you want to remove this flower? The email does not appear to be a valid email address. pilot whose display of calm, quiet courage made him an international hero during a 17-day hijacking … You may not upload any more photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 30 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 20 photos to this memorial. GREAT NEWS! A system error has occurred. The hijacking began a peripatetic 17-day ordeal of casual torture and gratuitous brutality during which many passengers and crew members were severely beaten, an American Navy man was killed and the original hijackers were replaced on the plane by two separate radical bands. The most enduring image of the 17 day ordeal was Captain Testrake being interviewed in the cockpit with a terrorist's pistol held at his temple. All photos appear on this tab and here you can update the sort order of photos on memorials you manage. You are only allowed to leave one flower per day for any given memorial. Capt. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. With mandatory retirement just a few years away, he began signing up for international routes, often meeting his second wife, Phyllis, for sightseeing excursions during his overseas layovers.

(AP) _ John Testrake, the pilot hailed as a hero of the 17-day hijacking of a TWA jet in 1985, died today at a hospice. Failed to remove flower. Please enter location or other information that may help the volunteer in fulfilling this request. × Capt. (AP) _ John Testrake, the pilot hailed as a hero of the 17-day hijacking of a TWA jet in 1985, died today at a hospice. We have a volunteer within ten miles of your requested photo location. An email has been sent to the person who requested the photo informing them that you have fulfilled their request. Please try again later.

She was waiting for him on June 14, 1985, when he took off from Athens for what should have been a short hop to Rome. If a new volunteer signs up in your requested photo location, they may see your existing request and take the photo. John L. Testrake, the Bible-reading T.W.A. One passenger _ a Navy diver _ was killed, but the rest of the passengers and crew were eventually released unharmed after 17 days. based on information from your browser. Captain Testrake, whose radio transmissions were broadcast around the world, followed the hijackers' orders when he had to, but thought nothing of scolding them when they made demands he felt would endanger the flight.

After his retirement in 1987 he began what amounted to an airborne lay ministry, flying the small plane he kept at his Missouri home to speaking engagements around the country.

Remove advertising from a memorial by sponsoring it for just $5. Captain Testrake's first wife died in 1976, and two of his children died in accidents. Your account has been locked for 30 minutes due to too many failed sign in attempts. "I knew the guy," he said. Try again later. TWA Boeing 727 captain John L. Testrake from Richmond, Missouri, emerges from the cockpit of his hijacked airliner 19 in June 1985 at Beirut airport to … Use the links under “See more…” to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. Try again later. Translation on Find a Grave is an ongoing project. Testrake and his wife, Phyllis, had moved last year from their home on Lake Viking to St. Joseph, about 40 miles west, to be near medical treatment. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. You need a Find a Grave account to add things to this site. when he made what turned out to be a fateful decision in the early 1980's. Through it all, Captain Testrake was as an island of calm. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. Sorry! Add to your scrapbook.

GREAT NEWS! He gained worldwide fame in 1985 as he sat in the cockpit of a Trans World Airlines jet parked for more than two weeks on the tarmac at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon. We do not have any photo volunteers within fifty miles of your requested photo location. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers.

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