Sabena Flight 571 hijacking

When

8 May 1972

Kind

Event

Coordinates

32.01° N, 34.88° E

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Sabena Flight 571.

1972 aircraft hijacking in Lod, Israel

Sabena Flight 571 was a scheduled passenger flight from Brussels to Tel Aviv via Vienna, operated by the Belgian national airline, Sabena. On 8 May 1972, a Boeing 707 passenger aircraft operating that service, captained by British pilot Reginald Levy, DFC, was hijacked by four members of the Black September Organization, a Palestinian terrorist group.

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