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   Dawson's Field hijackings

   In the Dawson's Field hijackings (September 6, 1970) four jet aircraft bound for New York City were hijacked by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
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   Dawson

   Fictional characters ... Dawson Leery, on the TV show Dawson's Creek
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   List of aircraft hijackings

   1970, September: As part of the Dawson's Field hijackings, PFLP members attempted to hijack four aircraft simultaneously.
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   Dawson's

   Dawson's Field hijackings, terrorist incident in the 1970s
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   Black September in Jordan

   On September 7, in the series of Dawson's Field hijackings, three planes were hijacked by PFLP: a SwissAir and a TWA that were landed in Azraq area and a Pan Am that was landed in Cairo.
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   Leila Khaled

   On September 6, 1970, Khaled and Patrick Arguello, a Nicaraguan, attempted the hijack of El Al Flight 219 from Amsterdam to New York City as part of the Dawson's Field hijackings; a series of almost simultaneous hijackings carried out by the PFLP.
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   Wadie Haddad

   The Dawson's Field hijackings of 1970, when PFLP members including Leila Khaled brought three passenger jets to Jordan, helped provoke the bloody fighting of Black September.
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   El Al

   The hijacking was as part of the Dawson's Field hijackings.
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   Patrick Argüello

   He was shot and killed while attempting to hijack El Al Flight 219 in September, 1970 as part of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine's Dawson's Field hijackings.
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    George Habash

    The Dawson's Field hijackings of 1970 were instrumental in provoking the Black September crackdown, which came close to destroying the PLO.

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Dawson's Field hijackings,
• Dawson,
• List of aircraft hijackings,
• Dawson's,
• Black September in Jordan,
• Leila Khaled,
• Wadie Haddad,
• El Al,
• Patrick Argüello,
• George Habash