Greg Broiles writes:
It's my understanding that one hostage was killed early in the standoff, and that another team member (a coach?) was shot but escaped as the hostages were being captured initially.
Some time later, the German authorities provided the terrorists with a bus - the hostages and terrorists boarded the bus and drove to the airport, where two helicopters were waiting for them.
There - on the airport tarmac - there was a gunfight between (AFAIK) German police and the terrorists, which led to killing all of the remaining hostages, many of the terrorists, and some police.
Yes, I obviously got the Munich thing confused with something else. I have posted a correction in response to a sarcastic snipe by Tim.
"One Day In September" is a documentary about this which isn't impossible to find on DVD or VHS.
.. or are you saying that the airport firefight took place between Israeli soldiers in German police uniforms and the terrorists?
No. It was Germans who screwed it up. The Germans, concerned about PR, turned down the Mossad's request to send in a rescue team, and tried to do the rescue themselves with the Mossad director watching. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"