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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
The Operation Gift (Hebrew: מבצע תשורה, mivtza t'shura), was an Israeli Special Forces operation at the Beirut International Airport on the evening of 28 December 1968, in retaliation for the attack on the Israeli Airliner El Al Flight 253 two days earlier and the hijacking of El Al Flight 426 five months earlier, both by the Lebanon and Syria-based Popular Front for the Liberation of ...
In August 1969, there was the TWA Flight 840 hijacking. In November 1969, two Arabs launched a grenade attack on the El Al offices at Athens destroying part of the offices, injuring 14 people and killing a two-year-old. They were arrested by the Greek authorities.
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;
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 ...
The aircraft, El Al Flight 426, which was en route from Rome to Tel Aviv, is diverted to Algiers by the hijackers. Negotiations with the hijackers lasted for 40 days. Both the hijackers and the passengers, including 21 Israeli hostages, were eventually freed. [3]
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