Salah Masoud Busir died on the morning of February 21, 1973, in a plane crash, when the plane was shot down by an Israeli fighter over the Sinai Peninsula in the Ismailia region. Some alleged that Busir had become a target for Israel, and felt that the terrorist attack at Munich Olympics in 1972 was a way of avenging his death. Salah Busir is revered in the Arab world as a sort of martyr.