Air France: Timeline

1933   Air France begins operations with 250 planes.

1962   An air crash occurs at Orly Airport in Paris - an Air France Boeing Boeing

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 707 over-runs the runway; 130 of 132 passengers are killed, two stewardesses survive.

1962   An Air France Boeing Boeing

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 707 jet crashes into terrain during bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing all 113 on board. It is the airline's second fatal accident in just 3 weeks.

1966   An Air France personnel strike begins.

1976   Palestinian extremists hijack an Air France plane in Greece with 246 passengers and 12 crew. They take it to Entebbe, Uganda Uganda

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, where Israel Israel

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i commandos storm it on July 4.

1976   In the Entebbe Raid, Israeli Israel

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 airborne commandos free 103 hostages being held by Palestinian hijackers of an Air France plane at Uganda Uganda

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's Entebbe Airport; one Israeli and several Ugandan soldiers are killed in the raid.

2003   At the request of the U.S. Embassy in Paris, the French Government France

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 orders Air France to cancel several flights between France and the U.S. in response to terrorist concerns.