258:, Greece on December 26, 1968. The two dashed out of the airport transit lounge just as the Israeli plane, parked 200 yards (180 m) away, was preparing to take off. The plane had flown in earlier from Tel Aviv. Mohammad fired at the plane for more than a minute with a submachine gun while Suleiman threw two hand grenades, creating panic among the planes' 10 crew and 41 passengers. One passenger, Israeli Leon Shirdan, 50, of Haifa, a marine engineer, was killed. He was survived by his wife and then 15-year-old daughter. Two unidentified women were injured, one by a bullet, the other as she leaped from the jet when the door was opened.
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336:. legality blog. September 12, 2010.
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576:Hawker Hunter Tower Bridge incident
360:. December 26, 1968. Archived from
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696:Northeast Airlines Flight 946
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385:Bell, Philip (May 13, 2013).
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556:Yuri Gagarin's MiG-15 crash
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863:Arab–Israeli conflict
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