Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114

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Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was a regularly scheduled international passenger flight from Tripoli, Libya, to Cairo, Egypt, through Benghazi in Libya. The flight was shot down on 21 February 1973 by two Israeli McDonnell Douglas F-4 fighter jets after it mistakenly entered the airspace of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula – then under Israeli occupation – resulting in the death of 108 passengers and crew, with 5 survivors. The Boeing 727-200 left Tripoli and flew to Benghazi for its scheduled stopover. After taking off from Benghazi, it became lost because of a combination of bad weather and equipment failure over Northern Egypt. The aircraft entered Israeli controlled airspace and territory over the Sinai Peninsula, where it was intercepted by two Israeli F-4s. It was then shot down by the Israeli fighter pilots with the authorisation of David Elazar, chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces. The downing of the plane earned unanimous international criticism: both the Soviet Union and the...

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