El Al Flight 426 hijacking
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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. Scholars have characterized the hijacking as significant in the advent of modern international air terrorism.
4X-ATA, the aircraft involved, seen 10 years after the hijack
El Al
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EL AL Israel Airlines Ltd., trading as EL AL, is an Israeli airline and the nation’s flag carrier. Since its inaugural flight from Geneva to Tel Aviv in September 1948, the airline has grown to serve almost 50 destinations, operating scheduled domestic and international services and cargo flights within Israel, and to Europe, the Middle East, the Americas, Africa, and the Far East, from its main base in Ben Gurion Airport.
An El Al Lockheed Constellation (1951).
A Curtiss Commando freight aircraft of El Al.
Kurdish Jewish Immigrants from Iraq leaving Lod Airport (1951).
A Bristol Britannia of El Al at Farnborough Airport in 1957 just before delivery to the airline.