Hijacking | |
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Date | 23 July 1968 |
Summary | Hijacking |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Boeing 707 |
Operator | El Al |
Registration | 4X-ATA |
Flight origin | London Heathrow Airport |
Stopover | Rome Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport |
Destination | Lod Airport (renamed Ben Gurion International Airport) |
Occupants | 48 |
Passengers | 38 (Including 3 hijackers) |
Crew | 10 |
Fatalities | 0 |
Survivors | 48 (Including 3 hijackers) |
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.[1] Scholars have characterized the hijacking as significant in the advent of modern international air terrorism.[2]