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    York City and one for London. Three aircraft were forced to land at Dawson's Field, a remote desert airstrip near Zarqa, Jordan, formerly Royal Air Force...
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  • Matthew 'Matt' Dawson (born 27 April 1994) is an Australian field hockey player who plays as a defender for the Australian national team. He competed at...
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  • Fielding Dawson (August 2, 1930 – January 5, 2002, aged 71) was a Beat-era author of short stories and novels, and a student at Black Mountain College...
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  • Zürich (a Douglas DC-8) were forced to land at Dawson's Field. September 6, 1970: As part of the Dawson's Field hijackings by PFLP members, the hijacking of...
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    Leila Khaled (category Dawson's Field hijackings)
    the TWA Flight 840 hijacking in 1969 and one of the four simultaneous Dawson's Field hijackings the following year as part of the campaign of Black September...
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    the Western newspapers after the hijacking of TWA Flight 840 and the Dawson's Field hijackings. These photos often included Khaled wearing a keffiyeh in...
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    World War II; the Nuremberg trials; combat in the Vietnam War; the Dawson's Field hijackings; Watergate; the Iran Hostage Crisis; and the assassinations...
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    George Habash (category Dawson's Field hijackings)
    single democratic and secular state in the entire region. In the 1970 Dawson's Field hijackings, Habash masterminded the hijackings of four Western airliners...
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    Black September (category Dawson's Field hijackings)
    the country, but continued PLO activities in Jordan culminated in the Dawson's Field hijackings of 6 September 1970. This involved the Popular Front for...
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    Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama television series about the lives of a close-knit group of friends in the fictional town of Capeside, Massachusetts...
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  • International Airport in the Philippines, killing 45 people. 1970 – Dawson's Field hijackings: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists...
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  • playing their home games at a city owned park, the Lady Muleriders opened Dawson Field at the Mulerider Softball Complex during the 2014 season. The 2014 season...
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  • Is Missing", a season 2 episode of Airwolf Pan Am Flight 93, in the Dawson's Field hijackings in September 1970 Flight 93 National Memorial, in Pennsylvania...
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  • hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan. 1971 – The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, eventually...
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  • Marcel André Boisard (category Dawson's Field hijackings)
    in September 1970, the liberation of Western hostages hijacked to Dawson’s Field airport in Jordan. In 1975, he was appointed Research Fellow of the...
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  • Field of Dreams is a 1989 American sports fantasy drama film written and directed by Phil Alden Robinson, based on Canadian novelist W. P. Kinsella's...
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    El Al Flight 432 attack (category Dawson's Field hijackings)
    They were released a year later, in September 1970, following the Dawson's Field hijackings by members of a Palestinian terrorist organization who demanded...
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  • crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and six crew. 1970 – The Dawson's Field hijackers release 88 of their hostages. The remaining hostages, mostly...
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  • softball field with covered batting cages for the Lady Mulerider softball team. Named in honor of Bill Dawson Sr. and Melissa Dawson, Dawson Field at the...
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    Wadie Haddad (category Dawson's Field hijackings)
    the PFLP from within the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The Dawson's Field hijackings of 1970, when PFLP members including Leila Khaled brought...
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    Beirut was hijacked after departing Bahrain and forcibly landed at Dawson's Field in Jordan. The hijacking was done by a Popular Front for the Liberation...
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    Bassam Abu Sharif (category Dawson's Field hijackings)
    was dubbed the "face of terror" by Time magazine for his role in the Dawson's Field hijackings in 1970, when the PFLP hijacked Pan Am, Swissair, and TWA...
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  • Sarah Dawson (born November 17, 1982) is an American field hockey forward/midfielder, who earned her first senior career cap during the New Zealand Tour...
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    PFLP forces hijacked three airplanes (British, Swiss and German) at Dawson's field in Jordan. To secure the release of the passengers, the demand to free...
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  • chronologically Swissair Flight 100, hijacked over France as part of the Dawson's Field hijackings in September 1970 Asian Spirit Flight 100, crashed into a...
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  • Patrick Argüello (category Dawson's Field hijackings)
    PFLP agreed to provide in exchange for the FSLN's participation in the Dawson's Field hijackings. When two other Palestinian co-conspirators were unable to...
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    Yitzchak Hutner (category Dawson's Field hijackings)
    by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists in the Dawson's Field hijackings, which he survived. Hutner was born in Warsaw, Poland, to...
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    supported by an observer, was positioned with a field of fire to the east. Sniper No. 4 had a field of fire to the northeast, while Sniper No. 5 was...
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  • Bundespolizei air marshals and use their sidearms to take control of the plane. Dawson's Field hijackings Infrastructure security Unruly aircraft passenger Most, but...
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    have encouraged a number of further hijackings, notably including the Dawson's Field hijackings later the same year. "Athens Agrees to Free 7 After Arabs...
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