The aircraft landed at Singapore safely where the Singapore Armed Forces Commando Formation stormed it and killed the hijackers.
The CDO FN is the first unit in the SAF to form an alliance with a foreign unit, the 1st Battalion Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment, in 1982.
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The commandos have been depicted in or referred to in Singaporean television programmes, such as MediaCorp Channel 8's The Reunion (2001) and Honour and Passion (2007).
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On 31 January 1974, four terrorists attacked the Shell oil refinery complex on Pulau Bukom and hijacked the ferryboat Laju and took five hostages.
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