---
tags:
  - Organization
  - Private
  - Airline
  - France
category: "Private Organization"
summary: "Air France is the French national carrier whose Tel Aviv-to-Paris flight was hijacked by Baader-Meinhof Group members in June 1976 and diverted to Entebbe, Uganda, prompting the Israeli Operation Thunderbolt rescue."
start: 1933
location: "Paris, France"
---
[[Air France]] is a French airline. It was involved in the 1976 [[Entebbe hijacking]], where an [[Air France]] jet flying from [[Tel Aviv]] to [[Paris]] was diverted to [[Entebbe Airport]] in [[Uganda]] by members of the [[Baader-Meinhof Group]]. The hijacking led to a commando raid by [[Israel|Israeli]] forces to rescue the hostages.[^1]

[[Ari Ben-Menashe]] later booked an [[Air France]] flight from [[Europe]] to [[Israel]] for [[Sayeed Mehdi Kashani]].[^1]

### Footnotes
[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992.