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TWA Flight 840 was a Trans World Airlines Boeing 707 operating a flight from Leonardo da Vinci International Airport in Rome, Italy, to Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, that was hijacked on 29 August 1969. There were no fatalities although at least two passengers were lightly wounded and the aircraft was significantly damaged. Two hostages were held for two months.
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TWA Flight 840 was a 1969 hijacking of a Rome-to-Tel Aviv flight. A 2015 citation in the article was titled "The political economy of terrorism." The word terror survives six times in the article today, but the opening no longer says who carried out the hijacking. A reader today does not learn that the opening once named the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine as the hijackers, stated the operation succeeded even though Yitzhak Rabin was not aboard, described the hijackers' demand to land in Damascus, or noted that the last two hostages released, in December, were the Israeli passengers.
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