[DOC] [TLE] Operation Entebbe - Wikipedia [PAR] Operation Entebbe was a successful counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission 
carried out by commandos of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at Entebbe Airport 
in Uganda on 4 July 1976. A week earlier, on 27 June, an Air France plane with 
248 passengers had been hijacked by ... Just after takeoff, the flight was hijacked 
by two Palestinians from the Popular... [DOC] [TLE] AIR FRANCE TO COMPENSATE ENTEBBE HOSTAGES - NYTimes ... [PAR] Jul 5, 1981 ... The Air France jet, carrying 245 passengers, was seized on June 27, 1976, by 
four pro-Palestinian hijackers who had boarded in Athens. ... rescue of the 
hostages aboard a hijacked Air France airliner at Entebbe, Uganda, ... On July 4, 
in the now legendary rescue effort, Israeli defense forces freed the 100... [DOC] [TLE] Israeli raid to rescue Uganda hostages in 1976 remembered | Daily ... [PAR] Jul 4, 2016 ... The drama began on June 27 when an Air France jet flying from Tel Aviv to Paris 
with more than 250 people was hijacked and forced to land in Benghazi, Libya. ... 
The hijackers threatened to blow up the plane unless 53 Palestinians or ... one of 
the terrorists involved in the hijacking of Air France Flight 139... [DOC] [TLE] Significant Terrorist Incidents 1961-2003: A Brief Chronology [PAR] Attack and Hijacking at the Rome Airport, December 17, 1973: Five terrorists 
pulled ... Entebbe Hostage Crisis, June 27, 1976: Members of the Baader-
Meinhof ... Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) seized an Air France 
airliner and its ... August 31, 1981: The Red Army exploded a bomb at the U.S. Air 
Force Base at... [DOC] [TLE] 'We thought this would be the end of us': the raid on Entebbe, 40 ... [PAR] Jun 25, 2016 ... It began on Sunday 27 June with a routine Air France flight from Tel Aviv to ... that 
the plane would now be called Haifa 1, taking its name from the city in the north ... 
with the Israeli air force, and told him she feared they'd been hijacked. .... 
transporters the 2,500 miles to Uganda, one of those could land and... [DOC] [TLE] Operation Entebbe - My Jewish Learning [PAR] On July 3, 1976, the Israeli Defense Force swept into the airport in Entebbe, 
Uganda and freed the hostages of Air France Flight 139. Operation Entebb ... [DOC] [TLE] BBC ON THIS DAY | 4 | 1976: Israelis rescue Entebbe hostages [PAR] In a dramatic raid Israeli commandos fly to Uganda to save 100 hostages held by 
... or Jews, held by pro-Palestinian hijackers at Entebbe airport in Uganda. ... 11 
Russian-built MiG fighters, which amounted to a quarter of Uganda's air force. ... 
The crisis began on 27 June, when four militants seized an Air France flight, 
flying... [DOC] [TLE] Idi Amin's Israeli Connection - The New Yorker [PAR] Jun 27, 2016 ... Helen Epstein on a 1976 hijacking and its effect on Uganda's relations ... On 
June 27, 1976, an Air France jet carrying around two hundred and ... of fifty-three 
pro-Palestinian militants from Israeli and European jails. ... forces with Egypt, 
which was mobilizing to retaliate for the capture of the Sinai Peninsula. [DOC] [TLE] Operation Thunderbolt: Israel's Entebbe Raid : SHELDON KIRSHNER [PAR] Jun 8, 2016 ... An Air France jet of the kind hijacked in 1976 ... The terrorists belonged to the 
Popular Front for the Liberation of ... Kenya profited from the arrangement by 
virtue of Israel's promise to destroy Amin's air force, ... Uganda was far away. ... 
Gur finally concluded that the pilots could land the planes unnoticed and... [DOC] [TLE] Operation Entebbe - Expand Your Mind - Topics [PAR] Operation Entebbe was a successful counter-terrorist hostage-rescue ... 
Hijacking. On 27 June 1976, Air France Flight 139, an Airbus A300B4-203, .... or 
the Palestinians by allowing the Israelis to land their aircraft within their borders. 
... Ugandan Air Force; also with holding off hostile ground forces from the city

Question: June 27:Palestinian terrorists hijack an Air France jetliner & force it to land in this Ugandan city
Answer: Entebbe