The word “hostage” appeared 2 times in this article's opening at its peak in 2010. Today the opening carries none. 4 remain further down the article, where a reader arriving from a search result does not go.
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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-02. “hostage” appeared 2 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 4.
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The opening as it read in 2010
El Al Flight 426 was hijacked on July 23, 1968 by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine .1The aircraft was en route from London Heathrow Airport to Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport and then to Lod Airport , now known as Ben Gurion International Airport . The plane was later diverted to Dar El Beïda airport in Algiers . Algeria formally declared war on Israel following the 1967 Arab-Israeli War . At the time, the Algerian authorities believed El Al to be a paramilitary organization because it carried military cargo for the Israel Defense Forces , and impounded the plane and detained the 22 Israeli nationals after it landed.2
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The opening as it stood in 2015 4 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear
El Al Flight 426 was an El Al passenger flight hijacked on July 23, 1968 by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), setting off a wave of hijackings by the PFLP.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Passenger flight hijacked in 1968 El Al Flight 426 was an El Al passenger flight hijacked on July 23, 1968 by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), setting off a wave of hijackings by the PFLP. Scholars have characterized the hijacking as significant in the advent of modern international air terrorism.
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Passenger flight hijacked in 1968 El Al Flight 426 was an El Al passenger flight hijacked on 23 July 1968 by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), setting off a wave of hijackings by the PFLP.
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Today
“hostage” appeared 2 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 4. Read the current article and compare.
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What Wikipedia says this is
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Then
hijacked on july 23
Now
el al passenger flight hijacked on 23 july 1968 by three members of the popular front for the liberation of pal
Where the word went
It left the opening. It did not leave the article. Wikipedia moved it down the page, where a reader arriving from a search result will not reach it.
“terror” now appears 3× under Impact, 50% of the way down the article
Sections that no longer exist
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History1,618 characters
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