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Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108 people.
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Peninsula in Egypt between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea
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Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114
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, that was shot down in 1973 by Israeli fighter jets after it mistakenly entered the airspace of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula – then under…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)