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Uganda: Entebbe jet video

Written byLuisetta Mudie
Posted 5 July 2006 19 years ago

Video Journalist Africa shoots some video of an ancient-looking jet aircraft at Uganda's Entebbe Airport, which local people say is the Air France jet whose hijacking prompted the Israeli military raid and rescue operation there 30 years ago. But the tailplane appears to bear the faded letters: “Brit…”

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