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TWA Flight 840 (1969)

TWA Flight 840 (1969)

Infobox Airliner accident|name=TWA Flight 840
Date=August 29, 1969
Type=Hijacking
Site= Greek airspace
Origin=Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport
Stopover=Athens (Ellinikon) International Airport
Destination=Ben Gurion International Airport
Injuries=0
Aircraft Type=Boeing 707-331Bcite book | first = Susan| last = Ottaway| year = 2008| title = Fire over Heathrow: The Tragedy of Flight 712| publisher = Pen and Sword Books Ltd| location = Barnsley| id = ISBN 9781844157396]
Operator=Trans World Airlines
Tail Number=airreg|N|776TW|disaster
Passengers=120
Crew=7
Survivors=127

: "This article is about the 1969 hijacking. For the 1986 bombing, see TWA Flight 840 (1986)."

In August 1969, leaders in the Palestinian left-wing organization PFLP learned that Yitzak Rabin, the Israeli Ambassador to the United States was scheduled to be aboard the Rome -Athens-Tel Aviv flight. Two operatives, Leila Khaled and Salim Issawi hijacked the plane. The operation was successful, although Rabin was not aboard. The hijackers demanded that the pilot land in Damascus, Syria. All hostages save for 2 Israeli passengersfact|date=September 2008 were released and no one was injured, although the nose section of the plane, a Boeing 707, was blown up. The hostages were released in December that year in return for 71 Syrian and Egyptian soldiers released by Israel.fact|date=September 2008 Boeing fitted the nose section from 707-465 G-ARWE to the aircraft. cite journal | last = O'Brien| first = Tim| authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 2008| month = June | title = The Last Flight of Whiskey Echo| journal = Aeroplane| volume = Vol 36, No 6| issue = 422| pages = p30-35| id = ISSN 0143-7240| url = | accessdate = 2008-05-15 | quote = ] This aircraft had been destroyed by fire in an accident at Heathrow on 8 April 1968, but the nose section was salvagable. The aircraft was re-registered N28714 and returned to service. It was sold to Pan Am and reregistered N706PA, and flew for several years afterwards.cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/~aeromoe/fleets/tw.html|title=TRANS WORLD AIRLINES|publisher=Aeromoe|accessdate=2008-05-15] In March 1980, aircraft was withdrawn from service and flown to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base for use as spares for the KC135 fleet of the USAF. The aircrafts' registration was cancelled in March 1984.

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* List of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners


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