[Phoenix8]

I had forgotten the awful and somewhat senseless terror attacks on Pan AM Flight 707 (and more) –Dec 17, 1973 almost exactly 1/2 century ago! I was a lad at the time.

If I recall they were all Palestinians and the bastards threw incendiary grenades into the cabin of a full flight of men, women and children sitting on the runway:

[linMcHlp]

bkmk

[sockmonkey]

The USS Liberty incident was an attack on a United States Navy technical research ship, USS Liberty, by Israeli Air Force jet fighter aircraft and Israeli Navy motor torpedo boats, on 8 June 1967.
The attack killed 34 and injured 171 Americans.

[NWFree]

Like I said - Arafat and the ragheads have been killing people since I was a kid. It was all over the news just like Vietnam

[Larry Lucido]

Three years later they thought it would be a good idea to hijack another flight and land it in Entebbe.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

It was Pan Am Flight 110 that was destroyed, and Lufthansa Flight 303 that was then highjacked to the Mideast. 707 refers to the model number of the Pan Am aircraft.

[Dr. Thorne]

I was going to ask how soon the Jew-haters would show up on this thread to talk about the Eeeeeevil Joooos, but I see they’re already here.

[fruser1]

A great airline already in a bit of a downward spiral and this killed it off for good.

The last flight I ever had that I’d call “good” was on Pan Am.