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Organization
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Airline
France
Private Organization 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.

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 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. ↩︎