Tel Aviv-Lod International Airport (TLV), Lod, Israel 32°00′34″N34°52′37″E / 32.0094°N 34.8769°E / 32.0094; 34.8769
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Boeing 707-329
Operator
Sabena
Registration
OO-SJG
Flight origin
Wien-Schwechat International Airport (VIE/LOWW)
Destination
Tel Aviv-Lod International Airport (TLV), Lod, Israel
Passengers
94 (inc. 4 hijackers)
Crew
7
Fatalities
3 (1 passenger, 2 hijackers)
Injuries
3 (2 passengers, 1 commando)
Survivors
98 (inc. 2 hijackers)
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Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon
Engagements
El Al Flight 426 hijacking
El Al Flight 253 attack
retaliation raid
El Al Flight 432 attack
TWA Flight 840 hijacking (1969)
Avivim school bus bombing
Lod Airport massacre
Sabena Flight 571
1972 air raid
Kiryat Shmona massacre
Ma'alot massacre
1974 Nahariya attack
Savoy Hotel attack
Kfar Yuval hostage crisis
Coastal Road massacre
1978 South Lebanon conflict
1979 Ma'alot attack
1979 Nahariya attack
Misgav Am hostage crisis
1981 bombing of Lebanon
1982 Lebanon War
siege of Beirut
International incidents
Munich massacre
Operation Wrath of God
1972 raid
Israeli Bangkok Embassy hostage crisis
1973 raid
Sabena Flight 571 hijacking
Attack on the Saudi Embassy in Khartoum
1973 New York City bomb plot
1973 Athens Hellinikon International Airport attack
TWA Flight 841 (1974)
Pan Am Flight 110
Operation Entebbe
Sabena Flight 571 was a scheduled passenger flight from Brussels to Lod via Vienna operated by the Belgian national airline, Sabena. On 8 May 1972 a Boeing 707 passenger aircraft operating that service, captained by British pilot Reginald Levy, DFC,[1] was hijacked by four members of the Black September Organization, a Palestinian terrorist group. Following their instructions, Captain Levy landed the plane at Lod Airport (later Ben Gurion International Airport).[1] The hijackers demanded that Israel release Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the hostages. The standoff was ended by an Israeli commando raid in which all of the hijackers were killed or captured.
^ abHevesi, Dennis (5 August 2010). "Reginald Levy Is Dead at 88; Hailed as a Hero in a '72 Hijacking". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 August 2010.
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