Israel’s raid at Uganda’s Entebbe airport in the summer of 1976 to free hostages saw Boeing 707s involved in the operation, as Noam Menashe explains during this review of the type in Israeli service.
CLASSIC JETLINERS SPECIAL
Operation Thunderbolt on July 4, 1976 still stands as one of the most ambitious hostage rescues the world has ever seen. The previous week, on June 27, an Air France Airbus A300 had been hijacked by Palestinian terrorists on a service between Tel Aviv and Paris.