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    TWA Flight 840 was a Trans World Airlines flight from Leonardo da Vinci International Airport in Rome, Italy, to Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel...
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  • hijacking, a hijacking in 1969 TWA Flight 840 bombing, a bombing in 1986 This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title TWA Flight...
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    Leila Khaled (category Hijackers)
    attention for her role in the TWA Flight 840 hijacking in 1969 and one of the four simultaneous Dawson's Field hijackings the following year as part of...
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    of Palestine (PFLP), setting off a wave of hijackings by the PFLP. Scholars have characterized the hijacking as significant in the advent of modern international...
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    Trans World Airlines Flight 840 was a regularly scheduled flight from Los Angeles to Cairo via New York City, Rome, and Athens on April 2, 1986. About...
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  • Passengers Mistake a Hijacking for a 'Candid Camera' Stunt?". Snoops. 2014-09-28. Retrieved 2020-06-21. "The PFLP Hijacking of TWA Flight 840". Association for...
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    Palestinian terrorist group hijacked a Greek airliner and demanded his release in the Olympic Airways Flight 255 hijacking. Subsequently, he successfully...
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  • bombings and Leila Khaled, part of a group responsible for the TWA Flight 840 hijacking. At a WOL demonstration on 20 April during the 2022 Al-Aqsa clashes...
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    for the United States, and flew to Israel. In 1969, TWA Flight 840 from Rome to Athens was hijacked and forcibly diverted to Damascus. Nobody was injured...
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  • Russia, killing all 120 people on both aircraft. August 29 – In the TWA Flight 840 hijacking, two operatives from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine...
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  • Habash in 1967. They were previously known for plane hijackings such as the TWA Flight 840 hijacking in 1969. They were known to be allies of the Japanese...
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    for the first time that security personnel accompany Israeli flights, to prevent hijackings and terrorism from happening in the air.[citation needed] On...
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  • plane and kill all the passengers. In August 1969, there was the TWA Flight 840 hijacking. In November 1969, two Arabs launched a grenade attack on the El...
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  • arrested but 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...
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  • Aircraft hijackings El Al Flight 426 hijacking (July 23, 1968) El Al Flight 253 attack (December 26, 1968) El Al Flight 432 attack (February 18, 1969) TWA Flight...
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  • with the PFLP for one Israeli soldier captured in Lebanon. The hijacking of TWA Flight 840 from Los Angeles to Damascus on 29 August 1969 by a PFLP cell...
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  • 1968: a hijacker on Northwest Airlines Flight 714 demanded to be taken to Cuba, landing at José Martí International Airport. July 4, 1968: TWA Flight 329...
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  • others are wounded. 29 August – TWA Flight 840 hijacking: A PFLP terrorist cell led by Leila Khaled hijacks TWA Flight 840 on its way from Los Angeles to...
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  • to hijack Flight 335, a Boeing 727, after attempting to hijack a TWA Boeing 707 to Italy. November 27, 1971 Flight 106, a Boeing 727, was hijacked by...
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    hijacking in history. November 4: Varig Flight 911 was hijacked by six men who demanded to be taken to Cuba. December 2: TWA Flight 54 was hijacked by...
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    Boyatt was taken hostage on board a TWA plane by Palestinian guerillas during the 1969 TWA Flight 840 hijacking. Boyatt and the other passengers were...
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  • passengers boarding El Al and KLM flights for Tel Aviv were searched for weapons to avert a possible new aerial hijacking. The Netherlands' Chief of Protocol...
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  • passengers died. TWA Flight 847 (June 14, 1985) - A Boeing 727-231 operated by Trans World Airlines was hijacked. 1 passenger dies. TWA Flight 840 (April 2,...
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    circulated in the Western newspapers after the hijacking of TWA Flight 840 and the Dawson's Field hijackings. These photos often included Khaled wearing...
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  • Palestine, Leila Khaled and Salim Issawi, hijack Trans World Airlines Flight 840, a Boeing 707-331B on a flight from Rome, Italy, to Tel Aviv, Israel, with...
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    circulated in the Western newspapers after the hijacking of TWA Flight 840 and the Dawson's Field hijackings. These photos often included Khaled wearing...
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  • "With the Amazing Laila Khalid, The PLFP Resistance fighter Who hijackedTWA Flight 840 ‘ on its way from Rome to Athens". Several of Harazeen's family...
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  • pilots to use sufficient braking and reverse thrust. April 2, 1986: TWA Flight 840 is bombed on the way to Athens, sucking out 4 on board. The plane landed...
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  • Safa Issaoui, Tunisian track runner Salim Issawi, one of the hijackers of TWA Flight 840 (1969) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...
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