It was the longest and perhaps most unusual aerial hijacking in history. The true story, which Netflix will now release as a series on April 8-, is centered around two Paraguayan soccer players who in 1973 impersonated guerrillas and held hostage a plane from the Colombian airline Sociedad Aeronáutica de Medellín for over five days with 82 passengers on board, following a bizarre itinerary that included stops in Aruba, Ecuador, Chile, and Argentina.
Netflix's series ''The Hijacking of Flight 601' is directed by Colombians Camilo Prince and Pablo González, who also worked on' The Great Heist,' based on the true story of the 1994 heist of the robbery of the national bank El Banco de la Republica.
