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Private Organization | 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. | 1933 | 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 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
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Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. Sheridan Square Press, 1992 (TrineDay reprint, 2015). ↩︎