✸Hijacking of Air France flight 139

The Air France aircraft was hijacked on its flight from Tel Aviv to Paris via Athens with 248 passengers on board; the hijackers took control and took it to Entebbe international airport near the Ugandan capital Kampala. Days later special units of the Israeli army landed at the airport. The operation lasted about 90 minutes and ended with the freeing of most of the hostages and the killing of all the hijackers and a number of Ugandan soldiers.