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| | Dawson\'s Field hijackings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Two of the jets landed at a remote desert airstrip in Jordan called Dawson's Field, the third, a 747, was thought to be too large to land there, and the fourth hijacking was foiled mid-air. |
 | | The Palestinian guerrilla organization PFLP planned and executed this operation to gain publicity for the plight of Palestinians and to gain release of fellow guerrillas being held in Swiss jails. |
 | | It stopped in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and was hijacked shortly after it took off from there by Patrick Arguello, an American, and Leila Khaled, a Palestinian. |
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