events
A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
Related Wikipedia articles
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Palestinian Marxist–Leninist organization
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is a secular Palestinian Marxist–Leninist organization founded in 1967 by George Habash. It has consistently been the second-largest of the groups forming the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the largest being Fatah.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Dawson's Field hijackings
1970 Palestinian militant plane hijackings
In September 1970, members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) hijacked four airliners bound for New York City and one for London. Three aircraft were forced to land at Dawson's Field, a remote desert airstrip near Zarqa, Jordan, formerly Royal Air Force…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Jordan
Country in West Asia
Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories to the west. The Jordan River,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)