EgyptAir Flight 648

When

23 Nov 1985

Kind

Event

Coordinates

35.86° N, 14.48° E

Description

EgyptAir Flight 648 is hijacked by the Abu Nidal group and flown to Malta, where Egyptian commandos storm the plane; 60 are killed by gunfire and explosions.

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, EgyptAir Flight 648.

EgyptAir Flight 648 is hijacked by the Abu Nidal group and flown to Malta, where Egyptian commandos storm the plane; 60 are killed by gunfire and explosions

1985 aircraft hijacking in Malta

EgyptAir Flight 648 was a regularly scheduled international flight between Athens Ellinikon International Airport (Greece) and Cairo International Airport (Egypt). On 23 November 1985, a Boeing 737-200 airliner, servicing the flight was hijacked by the Palestinian terrorist organization Abu Nidal.

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• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “エジプト航空648便ハイジャック事件。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page