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    El Al Flight 426 was an El Al passenger flight hijacked on 23 July 1968 by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP),...
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    months after a group of self-styled Palestinian Arab commandos hijacked El Al Flight 426 on July 23, shortly after it took-off from Rome for Tel Aviv and...
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    further explaining the motives of the hijacking. She said, "I assumed [Shadia Abu Ghazaleh's] name on flight 840 to tell the world about the crimes the...
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  • hijacking of Flight Garuda Indonesia Flight 206. The first major Indonesian airline hijacking. The hijackers, a group called Commando Jihad, hijacked...
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  • The hijacking ended after 40 days and is considered to be the only successful hijacking involving an El Al jet. On 18 February 1969, El Al Flight 432...
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    El Al Flight 432 was a Boeing 720-058B (a shortened Boeing 707-120B) that was attacked by a squad of four armed Palestinian militants, members of the Lebanese-based...
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  • hateful—to the onetime Javits aide." Sabena Flight 571 hijacking El Al Flight 426 hijacking El Al Flight 253 attack Antisemitic canard "Javits Condemns...
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    officials. El Al Flight 426: A 1968 hijacking that had resulted in Israel releasing Arab prisoners in exchange for the hostages. Lufthansa Flight 649: Another...
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  • guarded the El Al office in Amsterdam, while police reinforcements were sent to Schiphol Airport where passengers boarding El Al and KLM flights for Tel Aviv...
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    Aircraft hijacking (also known as airplane hijacking, skyjacking, plane hijacking, plane jacking, air robbery, air piracy, or aircraft piracy, with the...
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    by Deed' had been the slogan in the nineteenth century)". The El Al Flight 426 hijacking is considered a turning point for modern terrorism studies. The...
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  • 1969 Athens airline office attack (category El Al accidents and incidents)
    subsequently released in the wake of the Olympic Airways Flight 255 hijacking. In 2019, Mansour Saif al-Din Mourad, a member of Jordan’s House of Representatives...
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  • Israelis during 1968 include: 23 July – El Al Flight 426 hijacking: The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place, when a Boeing 707...
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  • of Palestine hijacked El Al Flight 426 from Rome to Tel Aviv. Diverting to Algiers the negotiations extend over 40 days. Both the hijackers and the hostages...
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  • the 1960s Aircraft hijackings El Al Flight 426 hijacking (July 23, 1968) El Al Flight 253 attack (December 26, 1968) El Al Flight 432 attack (February...
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  • series of armed attacks and aircraft hijackings, including on non-Israeli targets: The hijacking of El Al Flight 426 from Rome to Lod airport in Israel...
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    after an unexplained descent, with seven killed. July 23: El Al Flight 426 was hijacked by three men of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine...
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    members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked El Al Flight 426, a Boeing 707 with 48 other people on board and diverted it to...
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  • for the Liberation of Palestine hijack El Al Flight 426, a Boeing 707 with 48 other people on board, during a flight from London Heathrow Airport in the...
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    targets to be attacked. Two days after the surprise attack, Israel said that 426 Hamas targets had been hit, including destroying Beit Hanoun, homes of Hamas...
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    intelligence agent hanged by Syria for espionage. Charred remains of the hijacked Egged bus during the Coastal Road massacre A destroyed bus after being...
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  • had previously been subject to an attempted hijacking to Cuba, although the hijackers were captured in El Paso, Texas. July 8, 1962 A Vickers Viscount...
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  • January 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) "A government hijacking". Flight International. 29 July 1971. p. 150. Archived from the original on...
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    The First Intifada (Arabic: الانتفاضة الأولى, romanized: al-Intifāḍa al-’Ūlā, lit. 'The First Uprising'), also known as the First Palestinian Intifada...
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    operation from USS Independence (CV-62). Following the Achille Lauro hijacking, on 10 October 1985 Prowlers from USS Saratoga (CV-60) provided ESM support...
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    1948 Palestinian expulsion from Lydda and Ramle (category 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight)
    Lod Airport massacre, in which 27 people died, and the 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight to Entebbe, which famously led to the IDF's rescue of the...
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  • to finance the debt. By March 2011, Air India had accumulated a debt of ₹426 billion (US$5.1 billion) and an operating loss of ₹220 billion (US$2.6 billion)...
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    massacre of more than 300 students on October 2. El Al Flight 426, from London to Tel Aviv, was hijacked by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation...
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  • three days later. September 11: September 11 attacks: Nineteen Al-Qaeda terrorists hijack four planes, crashing two into the twin towers of the World Trade...
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    and wounding two others. On 11 June 2018, Lufthansa Flight 426, an Airbus A340, preparing for a flight to Philadelphia International Airport sustained damage...
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