1. Mohamed Amin died in November 1996 when his flight Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was hijacked and crashed into the Indian Ocean near Grande Comore.
13 Facts About Mohamed Amin
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Mohamed Amin was born on 29 August 1943 in Eastleigh, Nairobi, to a family of Punjab descent.
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Mohamed Amin founded the Camerapix company in 1963 in Dar es Salaam and moved the company to Nairobi three years later.
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Mohamed Amin published issues of Selamta, the Ethiopian Airlines in-flight magazine.
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Mohamed Amin was not only active in Africa, but in the Middle East.
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Mohamed Amin covered the Palestinian Black September uprising to seize control of Jordan in September 1970.
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Mohamed Amin was able to move among the Palestinian forces where Western journalists could not.
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In 1991, Mohamed Amin lost his left arm during an ammunition dump explosion in Ethiopia during the Ethiopian Civil War.
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Mohamed Amin boarded Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 on 23 November 1996, with 61-year-old Briton Brian Tetley, a colleague who wrote the text for Mohamed Amin's photography books, to travel to Nairobi after a business trip to Ethiopia.
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Mohamed Amin attempted to rally the passengers to attack the hijackers and confronted the hijackers, trying to stop the scenario.
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ET-AIZ broke into pieces, and as Mohamed Amin was standing, his body hit the airplane wall causing his death.
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Mo Mohamed Amin is the inspiration for the A24 news channel, a proposed independent pan-African 24-hour 'African voice for Africa' which commenced broadcasting from Nairobi on 19 September 2008.
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Mohamed Amin worked with numerous journalists and writers, including Tahir Shah and Colin Blane, as well as Michael Buerk.