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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.
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 ...
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.
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;
The hijacking ended after 40 days and is considered to be the only successful hijacking involving an El Al jet. On 18 February 1969, El Al Flight 432 , operated Boeing 720-058B , registered 4X-ABB, was attacked at Zurich Airport by members of the PFLP while taxiing for takeoff en route from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv, via a Zurich intermediate stop.
The hijacking of El Al Flight 426 from Rome to Lod airport in Israel on 23 July 1968. [32] The Western media reported that the flight was targeted because the PFLP believed Israeli general Yitzhak Rabin, who was Israeli ambassador to the US, was on board. Several individuals involved with the hijacking, including Leila Khaled deny this.
Hijacking of Israel's El Al Flight 219 [ edit ] When two other Palestinian co-conspirators were unable to board the targeted El Al Flight 219 at the stopover in Amsterdam on September 6, 1970, [ 6 ] Argüello was left with Palestinian militant Leila Khaled , whom he knew only as "Shadiah" after having met her a week earlier.