Every other week, some wing-nut would board a jet and wave a semi-automatic about and demand to be flown to Cuba. It was en route from Tel Aviv to Paris on June 27, 1976, when it stopped in Athens to pick up more passengers. Among them were four hijackers, who diverted the plane to Entebbe Airport in central Uganda. Among them were four hijackers, who diverted the plane to Entebbe Airport in central Uganda. All of this is dramatised by Jose Padilha's thriller Entebbe, and on paper it sounds like a wonderfully cinematic story.

Source: Irish Independent May 11, 2018 06:45 UTC