A former Idaho legislator who now lives in Eagle has a remarkable story to tell about his experience as a flight engineer during a notorious airline hijacking that occurred 40 years ago.
Christian Zimmermann of Valley County was in the cockpit of TWA Flight 847 when it was hijacked by Hezbollah terrorists on June 14, 1985.
Zimmermann was called in to join the flight when the original flight engineer called in sick that morning in Athens, Greece. What started as a routine flight quickly turned into a 17-day ordeal that would make international headlines…