Less than two months later, the three remaining terrorists were released by the German government after two other Black September members hijacked a plane and threatened to blow it up unless the three were released. Three terrorists survived the attack and were taken into custody. The terrorists realised they were trapped and shot their hostages before the police could stop them. The Germans requested armoured cars and waited for over an hour for them to arrive. Two terrorists and one policeman were killed. Snipers started shooting at them and they shot back. Once on the ground, the terrorists realized there was a trap. The Germans had decided to confront the terrorists at the airport and had snipers waiting for them. The terrorists and hostages were taken to Fürstenfeldbruck airport by helicopter. Shortly after the crisis began, they demanded 234 prisoners jailed in Israel and the German-held founders of the communist Red Army Faction (Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof) be released.
The Munich massacre was an attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, at which eleven Israeli Olympic team members were taken hostage and eventually killed, along with a German police officer, by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September.
