Sabena Flight 571 Sabena Flight 571 Sabena Flight 571 was a scheduled passenger flight from Brussels to Lod via Vienna operated by the Belgian national airline, Sabena. On 8 May 1972 a Boeing 707 passenger aircraft operating that service, captained by British pilot Reginald Levy, DFC, was hijacked by four members of the Black September Organization, a Palestinian terrorist group. Following their instructions, Captain Levy landed the plane at Lod Airport (later Ben Gurion International Airport). The attack, planned by Ali Hassan Salameh, was carried out by a group of two men and two women who pretended to be two couples: the group’s
Uganda Airlines of them yielded fatalities. [[Hull-loss]]es are listed below. Uganda, a landlocked country in [[East Africa]], has been without a national airline since 2001, when Uganda Airlines, which was founded in 1976 was liquidated. [[Air Uganda]], a privately owned airline operated between 2007 and 2014. Following studies and wide consultations, the [[Cabinet of Uganda]], opted to re-launch Uganda Airlines, with six new jets, two of which will be the wide-body, long-range [[Airbus A330-800|A330-800]] and the other four being [[CRJ900]] aircraft. The studies recommended an equity investment by the government of approximately US$70 million and loans totaling US$330 million, borrowed from regional