TWA Flight 840 was a regularly scheduled Trans World Airlines flight.
The flight was twice attacked by Palestinian terrorists:
TWA Flight 840 hijacking, a hijacking in 1969
TWA Flight 840 bombing, a bombing in 1986
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TWAFlight840 was a Trans World Airlines flight from Leonardo da Vinci International Airport in Rome, Italy, to Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel...
Trans World Airlines Flight840 was a regularly scheduled flight from Los Angeles to Cairo via New York City, Rome, and Athens on April 2, 1986. About...
Palestine (PFLP). Khaled came to public attention for her role in the TWAFlight840 hijacking in 1969 and one of the four simultaneous Dawson's Field hijackings...
return to the United States unharmed. August 29, 1969: TWAFlight840 was a Trans World Airlines flight from Leonardo da Vinci International Airport in Rome...
Khaled circulated in the Western newspapers after the hijacking of TWAFlight840 and the Dawson's Field hijackings. These photos often included Khaled...
Khaled circulated in the Western newspapers after the hijacking of TWAFlight840 and the Dawson's Field hijackings. These photos often included Khaled...
(eight crew and 159 passengers) on board were killed. April 2, 1986: TWAFlight840 was descending for landing when a bomb exploded, ejecting four passengers...
Jerusalem bombings and Leila Khaled, part of a group responsible for the TWAFlight840 hijacking. At a WOL demonstration on 20 April during the 2022 Al-Aqsa...
PFLP for one Israeli soldier captured in Lebanon. The hijacking of TWAFlight840 from Los Angeles to Damascus on 29 August 1969 by a PFLP cell led by...
El Al Flight 426 was an El Al passenger flight hijacked on 23 July 1968 by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), setting...
Russia, killing all 120 people on both aircraft. August 29 – In the TWAFlight840 hijacking, two operatives from the Popular Front for the Liberation...
The El Al Flight 253 attack was a terrorist attack perpetrated by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) against a Boeing 707 passenger plane while...
the hydraulic system was shut off, and five were killed. August 29: TWAFlight840 was hijacked by two PFLP members, Leila Khaled and Salim Issawai. No...
pilots to use sufficient braking and reverse thrust. April 2, 1986: TWAFlight840 is bombed on the way to Athens, sucking out 4 on board. The plane landed...
attacked European and American interests. It is suspected of bombing TWAFlight840 in 1986. The exact relations between Fatah-SOG and the PLO leadership...
passengers died. TWAFlight 847 (June 14, 1985) - A Boeing 727-231 operated by Trans World Airlines was hijacked. 1 passenger dies. TWAFlight840 (April 2,...
the Amazing Laila Khalid, The PLFP Resistance fighter Who hijacked ‘ TWAFlight840 ‘ on its way from Rome to Athens". Several of Harazeen's family members...
in 1967. They were previously known for plane hijackings such as the TWAFlight840 hijacking in 1969. They were known to be allies of the Japanese Red...
Issaoui, Tunisian track runner Salim Issawi, one of the hijackers of TWAFlight840 (1969) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
Youth Federation (ISYF), was the mastermind. 329 and 2 2 April 1986 TWAFlight840 (1986) A Boeing 727 flying from Rome to Athens suffered an explosion...
El Al Flight 426 hijacking (July 23, 1968) El Al Flight 253 attack (December 26, 1968) El Al Flight 432 attack (February 18, 1969) TWAFlight840 hijacking...
groups claimed responsibility for this crash, along with the bombing of TWAFlight840, which occurred just two days later. An anonymous letter signed by those...
El Al Flight 432 was a Boeing 720-058B (a shortened Boeing 707-120B) that was attacked by a squad of four armed Palestinian militants, members of the Lebanese-based...
court for the defense was Leila Khaled, known for the 1969 hijacking of TWAFlight840, and currently a member of the Palestinian National Council. Prosecutors...
others are wounded. 29 August – TWAFlight840 hijacking: A PFLP terrorist cell led by Leila Khaled hijacks TWAFlight840 on its way from Los Angeles to...
707 plane and kill all the passengers. In August 1969, there was the TWAFlight840 hijacking. In November 1969, two Arabs launched a grenade attack on...
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