Going in to the historical drama "7 Days in Entebbe," I'll admit to having only the vaguest notion of the events that inspired the film. I knew that a passenger plane, after taking off from Israel at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Electronics expert Sid Hurwich; Invention used in Entebbe raid (Photo by Dave Norris/Toronto Star via Getty Images) In 1976, ...

Israelis are outraged over a 30-year-old British conspiracy theory on the origins of the legendary Entebbe operation. Experts on the Entebbe rescue, including Benjamin Netanyahu, are weighing in to ...

Remembering Michel Bacos, a French pilot who served in World War II and bravely remained behind with Jewish passengers when his 1976 commercial... Opinion: Remembering Pilot Michel Bacos, Hero Of The ...

In Entebbe, the four terrorists were welcomed by Uganda's dictator, Idi Amin, with Ugandan troops providing support for the terrorists. Two days later, the terrorists forced all Israeli and Jewish ...

The gripping political thriller “7 Days in Entebbe” — based on true events and directed by Brazilian filmmaker Jose Padilha — opens, somewhat surprisingly, with a modern dance performance. It’s a ...

Jose Padilha's 7 Days in Entebbe opens with a galvanizing flurry of activity. But the bustle is not the 1976 airliner hijacking that begins the main story, or the Israeli commando raid that concludes ...

A spokesman for Air France confirmed that the company reached an out-of-court agreement Thursday with a passenger involved in the June 1976 hijacking of an Air France airliner to Entebbe, in Uganda.

On this day -- June 27, 1976 -- an Air France plane with 248 passengers was hijacked by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the German Revolutionary Cells, and flown to ...

We may all wonder if we would act with courage in the face of catastrophe, emergency, or evil. Michel Bacos was captain of Air France Flight 139 on June 27, 1976, with more than 240 passengers and 12 ...