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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), setting off a wave of hijackings by the PFLP. Overview
Days before the attack, European and American authorities warned European airlines about bomb threats during the pre-Christmas holiday rush. [1]The incident came five 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 forced it to fly to Algiers.
July 23, 1968: To date, the only successful El Al hijacking attempt, as three members of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) hijacked El Al Flight 426 from Rome to Tel Aviv. Diverting to Algiers, the negotiations extended over forty days. Both the hijackers and the hostages went free.
On 23 July 1968, El Al Flight 426, operated by a Boeing 707-458C en route from London to Tel Aviv via Rome, registered 4X-ATA, was hijacked by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) shortly after take-off from Rome-Fiumicino airport and forcibly diverted to Algiers. The hijacking ended after 40 days and is ...
El Al Flight 426 hijacking; El Al Flight 432 attack; El Al Flight 1862; H. Hindawi affair; I. 1969 Israeli embassies and El Al attacks; L. 1978 London bus attack;
El Al Flight 219, a Boeing 707-458 ... with a stopover in Amsterdam. The two hijackers bumped from the El Al flight boarded and hijacked this flight as a target of ...
On September 6, 1970, Khaled and Patrick Argüello, a Nicaraguan–American, attempted to hijack El Al Flight 219 from Amsterdam to New York City as part of the Dawson's Field hijackings, a series of almost simultaneous hijackings carried out by the PFLP. Khaled and Argüello threatened to detonate grenades if they were not granted access to ...
In December 1968, two Arabs made the El Al Flight 253 attack. The attackers had been arrested by the Greek authorities [4] and said that their mission was to destroy an El Al's Boeing 707 plane and kill all the passengers. [5] In August 1969, there was the TWA Flight 840 hijacking.