Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114

When

21 Feb 1973

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

30.34° N, 32.68° E

Description

aviation accident

Deaths

108

Injured

5

1973 Israeli shootdown of an airliner

Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was a regularly scheduled international passenger flight from Tripoli, Libya, to Cairo, Egypt, through Benghazi in Libya. The flight was shot down on 21 February 1973 by two Israeli McDonnell Douglas F-4 fighter jets after it mistakenly entered the airspace of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula – then under Israeli occupation – resulting in the death of 108 passengers and crew, with 5 survivors.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 (Boeing 727) is shot down by Israeli fighter aircraft over the Sinai Desert, after the passenger plane is suspected of being an…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Über dem israelisch besetzten Sinai wird ein libysches Verkehrsflugzeug (Libyan-Airlines-Flug 114) von israelischen Kampfjets abgeschossen, nur fünf der 113…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “l’aviation israélienne abat un Boeing 727 de Libyan Arab Airlines au-dessus du désert du Sinaï”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Над Синайским полуостровом двумя перехватчиками израильских ВВС сбит отклонившийся от курса лайнер Боинг 727 Ливийских Арабских авиалиний рейса 114 Бенгази —…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page