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Ehud Barak after the Israeli operation to retake the Sabena plane at Lod Airport in 1972. Credit: Ron Ilan/Reuters

Ehud Barak after the Israeli operation to retake the Sabena plane at Lod Airport in 1972. Credit: Ron Ilan/Reuters

The seizing of planes became a tool of international terror with an El Al hijacking in 1968, peaked in frequency in the 1970s, and reached its deadliest point on 9/11, when nearly 3,000 people were murdered

The heroism by the captain and passengers on flydubai Flight 1073 Wednesday has filled Israelis with a kind of pride they last felt with the freeing of the hostages in the 1976 Entebbe raid in Uganda. But hijackings of airliners started eight years earlier and have continued in various guises into this century.