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Events on Saturday 12 September 1970 1
1970Dawson's Field HijackingsPFLP hijacks four airliners in coordinated attackThe Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked four international airliners and forced three to land at a remote airstrip in Jordan, later blowing up the empty planes before a global television audience. The crisis escalated tensions between Palestinian militants and Jordan's monarchy, triggering the Black September civil war.