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Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon (back to camera) welcoming the rescued Air France passengers and crew, including pilot Michel Bacos (left), coming off an Israel Air Force Hercules plane at Ben-Gurion International Airport, July 1976. Credit: Moshe Milner/Israel Government Press Office.
The French pilot who stayed with his Jewish passengers at Entebbe
The death of Air France pilot Michael Bacos, whose plane from Israel was hijacked to Uganda, reminds us that the anti-Semitism is a choice that the righteous can choose to reject.
Jonathan S. Tobin
March 27, 2019
Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon (back to camera) welcoming the rescued Air France passengers and crew, including pilot Michel Bacos (left), coming off an Israel Air Force Hercules plane at Ben-Gurion International Airport, July 1976. Credit: Moshe Milner/Israel Government Press Office.
French pilot who remained with Israeli and Jewish hostages at Entebbe dies at 95
Michel Bacos, the Air France pilot who, along with his crew, stayed with Israeli and Jewish hostages during the July 1976 hijacking that diverted the plane to Uganda’s Entebbe Airport, has died in Nice at the age of 95.
March 27, 2019