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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Dawson's Field hijackings Part of Black September in Jordan and spillover of Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon Three airliners were destroyed by explosion at Dawson's Field on 12 September 1970. Location Dawson's Field, Zarqa, Jordan Coordinates 32°06′21″N 36°09′24″E / 32. ...
On 23 November 1985, a Boeing 737-266 [2] airliner, servicing the flight was hijacked by the Palestinian terrorist organization Abu Nidal. The subsequent raid on the aircraft by Egyptian troops killed 56 of the 86 passengers, 2 of the 3 hijackers and 2 of the 6 crew, making the hijacking of Flight 648 one of the deadliest such incidents in history.
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.
Scholars of political science and terrorism studies have characterized the hijacking as a new era of terrorism as the first aviation attack motivated by political aims. [5] [6] According to David C. Rapoport, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the modern wave of left-wing terrorism began with the hijacking of the El Al Flight 426 in the ...
Leila Khaled (Arabic: ليلى خالد [ˈlajla ˈxaːled]; born April 9, 1944) is a former Palestinian militant and member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). She is famous as the first woman to hijack an airplane. [1]
The EPA’s official report on the two East Palestine flights describes pictures the plane took over Little Beaver Creek after a problem with its aerial camera was fixed, but it doesn’t mention ...
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 militant organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, while it was preparing for takeoff at the Zurich International Airport in Kloten, Switzerland on 18 February 1969.
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