All 43 passengers and crew aboard the plane died. Burke's main target was his ex-manager Ray Thomson. After boarding the plane Burke wrote a message on an airsickness bag reading: "Hi Ray. I think it's sort of ironical that we end up like this. I asked for some leniency for my family. Remember? Well, I got none and you'll get none." (7 December 1987)
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Thursday 16th of April 1981 (-) — Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Sigurd Debus dies due to internal bleeding in his head after being force-fed during a hungerstrike. Debus had been hungerstriking since 11 February 1981. Force-feeding started on 19 March 1981 and he fell into a coma on 10 April 1981.