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The storming of the aircraft killed 54 of the remaining 87 passengers, as well as two crew members and one hijacker.• Egypt (1985)
Three Palestinian Abu Nidal Organization operatives hijacked Egypt Air Flight 648 from Athens to Cairo (November 23, 1985) there were 60 people killed.
the flight was hijacked by the terrorist organization Abu Nidal.
EgyptAir Flight 648 - Wikipedia
Abu Nidal was born in Jaffa, on the Mediterranean coast of what was then the British Mandate of Palestine. His father, Hajj Khalil al-Banna, owned 6,000 acres (24 km2) of orange groves situated between Jaffa and Majdal, today Ashkelon in Israel.[15] The family lived in luxury in a three-storey stone house near the beach, later used as an Israeli military court.
Just before Jaffa was conquered by Israeli troops in April 1948, the family fled to their house near Majdal, but the Jewish militias arrived there too, and they had to flee again. This time they went to the Bureij refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, then under Egyptian control. Melman writes that the family spent nine months living in tents, dependent on UNRWA for an allowance of oil, rice and potatoes.
Abu Nidal - Wikipedia