1975 Orly Airport attacks

1975 terrorist attack

1975 Orly Airport attacks

Location| Orly Airport, Paris, France
Date| 13 and 19 January 1975

Attack type

| RPG attacks, shooting, grenade attacks, hostage-taking
Deaths| 0
Injured| 23
Perpetrators| Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

On 13 and 19 January 1975, El Al aircraft at Paris-Orly Airport, France were subject to attempted RPG attacks by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorists led by Carlos the Jackal. While the intended attacks failed, collateral damage was suffered and the second attack resulted in gunfighting and a seventeen-hour hostage situation.[1][2]

In the first attack, Carlos and Johannes Weinrich of the Revolutionary Cells fired two RPGs at an El Al aircraft, but missed and instead hit a Yugoslav plane and an administration building, injuring three people.[1][2][3] Six days later, Carlos returned with three Palestinian terrorists, and another attempted RPG-attack on an El Al airplane was thwarted, resulting in a hostage situation and gunfights with police.[1][2][4] Twenty people were wounded after grenades were thrown by the terrorists into the airport terminal.[5][6] The terminal building was surrounded by hundreds of French riot police, and French Interior Minister Michel Poniatowski arrived at the scene and reportedly became involved in negotiating with the terrorists.[6] After seventeen hours, the ten hostages including one child were released in return for the three remaining terrorists, excluding Carlos who had fled during the gunfight, being flown to Baghdad, Iraq.[2][4]

## References

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1. ^ a b c "Terrorist Incidents against Jewish Communities and Israeli Citizens Abroad, 1968-2003". International Institute for Counter-Terrorism. 20 December 2003. Archived from the original on 26 March 2021. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
2. ^ a b c d Ensalaco, Mark (2008). Middle Eastern terrorism: from Black September to September 11. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 80–82. ISBN 978-0-8122-4046-7.
3. ^ Bacon, Tricia (2018). Why Terrorist Groups Form International Alliances. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 96\. ISBN 9780812295023.
4. ^ a b Kushner, Harvey W (2002). Encyclopedia of Terrorism. SAGE. p. 322\. ISBN 9781452265506.
5. ^ "3 Terrorists Killed In Attack In Paris On El Al Passengers". The New York Times. 21 May 1978.
6. ^ a b "Terrorists Botch Attack on El Al Plane at Orly; Holding 3 Hostages;". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 20 January 1975.

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Prominent Palestinian militancy attacks in the 1970s

Within Israel|

* Avivim school bus bombing* (May 22, 1970)
* Lod Airport massacre (May 30, 1972)
* Kiryat Shmona massacre* (April 11, 1974)
* Ma'alot massacre* (May 15, 1974)
* Nahariya attack* (June 24–25, 1974)
* Beit She'an attack (November 19, 1974)
* Savoy Hotel attack* (March 6, 1975)
* Kfar Yuval hostage crisis* (June 15, 1975)
* Zion Square refrigerator bombing (July 4, 1975)
* Coastal Road massacre* (March 11, 1978)
* Nahariya massacre* (April 22, 1979)

Gaza Strip|

* Murder of the Aroyo children (January 2, 1971)

Aircraft attacks
and hijackings|

* Swissair Flight 330 (February 21, 1970)
* Olympic Airways Flight 255 hijacking (July 22, 1970)
* Dawson's Field hijackings (September 6–13, 1970)
* Lufthansa Flight 649 (February 22–23, 1972)
* Sabena Flight 571 (May 8, 1972)
* Lufthansa Flight 615 (October 29, 1972)
* Rome airport attacks and hijacking (December 17–18, 1973)
* TWA Flight 841 (September 8, 1974)
* Air France Flight 139 (June 27, 1976)
* Lufthansa Flight 181 (October 13–18, 1977)

Worldwide|

* Munich massacre (September 5–6, 1972)
* Israeli Bangkok embassy hostage crisis (December 28, 1972)
* Assassination of the Israeli attache in Washington (July 1, 1973)
* Schoenau ultimatum (September 28–29, 1973)
* Paris café attack (September 15, 1974)
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* OPEC siege (December 21, 1975)
* Yeşilköy airport attack (August 11, 1976)
* Orly Airport attack (May 20, 1978)
* London bus attack (August 20, 1978)

* Attacks launched from Lebanon 1960s 1980s

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