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El Al flight 426, on a Boeing 707-458, was scheduled to fly from Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport in Rome to Lod Airport, now known as Ben Gurion International Airport, in Tel Aviv. [1] [2] After the aircraft departed Rome, the pilots requested coffee from the cabin crew.
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.
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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.
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In Algiers, the Palestinian hijackers holding El Al Flight 426 released the 26 non-Israeli passengers who were on board the plane and allowed them to depart to France. Three days later, 10 women and children were allowed to depart, but the remaining 12 passengers and crew of 10 were held as hostages and would remain captive until September.
An Israeli woman paid $32,000 for the entire business section of an El Al flight from Paris to Israel so her dog could be at her side for the four-hour flight, according to a UPI story.Identified ...