A Delta Inflict was Lee Marvin's previous film prior to he died.

Plot synopsis

The class action of Palestinian terrorists hijack an American airliner bound for New York City. Ingesting a lot rider & crew hostage and diverting the plane to Beirut, a class action, the pro-Khomeini New World Todays Organization, produce demands to the United States government that, if does'nt met, might effect in the dying of the children whole.

A U.S. quickly responds by sending within Delta Click, an elect counter-terrorism unit to rescue the surety. With success infiltrating a terrorist compound, it rescue a surety & flee to the safety of Israel on a military payload plane.

A film was followed by ii sequels, Delta Click Two: A Colombian Connection & Delta Inflict Three: A Killing Game in 1990 and 1991.

Historical connections

A hijacked flight in the moving picture bears numerous resemblances by owning the real-life highjack of TWA Flight 847 in 1985: The route is Cairo-Athens-Rome (within a movie, a flight continues to Just released York City; in realistic the final destination was London). Two terrorists took all over a flight, a third a single existence arrested around Athens. The flight was diverted to Beirut & Algiers. The lead flight attendant (played in the movie by Hanna Schygulla) was of German descent and was asked by a hijacker to individual out a Jewish passengers on board. Upon landing, one of the surety, a United States Navy diver, was shot. Above everthing, a fictitious airline in the motion picture, ATW (U.s. Travelways), is an anagram of TWA.

A surety delivery operation was inspired by Operation Entebbe, which was conducted by Israeli commandos in 1976. It was a subject of an additional picture show by Menahem Golan, Mivtsa Yonatan (freed inside English when Operation Thunderbolt), around 1977.

A beginning of the film besides got similarities to Operation Eagle Claw, the attempted delivery of American hostages held at the U.S. Embassy in Iran in 1980.