On June 27, 1976, an Airbus A300 operated by took off from Tel Aviv on its way to Paris.Many of the 248 civilian passengers were looking forward to a summer holiday in Europe, which was experiencing a heatwave. But the plane would never make it to . Instead, Palestinian hijackers took control and — with the help of thuggish dictator Idi Amin — flew it to Uganda's Entebbe Airport.As the helpless passengers stumbled down the boarding stairs to the Tarmac, women shielded children from the guns being waved in their faces and, once in the terminal, many believed they would never see daylight again.
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