Tag: El Al Flight 219
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On This Day In 1970, a Boeing 707 plunged 10,000 feet in one minute to defeat a hijacking, leaving one terrorist dead and a flight attendant wounded, but saving 146 lives
On September 6, 1970, El Al Flight 219 was flying from Tel Aviv to New York with a stop at Amsterdam when it became one of the targets in a coordinated wave of aircraft hijackings carried out by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The Boeing 707 was carrying 138 passengers and 10…
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