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Related: About this forumEntebbe pilot Michel Bacos who stayed with hostages dies
Source: BBC
Entebbe pilot Michel Bacos who stayed with hostages dies
27 March 2019
Michel Bacos, the Air France captain hailed as a hero for refusing to abandon his passengers when Palestinian and German hijackers seized the plane in 1976, has died in France aged 95.
The plane, carrying some 260 people from Tel Aviv to Paris, had stopped off in Athens, where the hijackers got on board and demanded it change course.
The hostage drama ended six days later at Entebbe airport in Uganda, when Israeli commandos stormed the terminal.
Bacos died in the French city of Nice.
Awarded France's highest civilian accolade, the Légion d'Honneur, he told the BBC in 2016 that as captain "it would be impossible for me to leave my passengers, unimaginable".
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27 March 2019
Michel Bacos, the Air France captain hailed as a hero for refusing to abandon his passengers when Palestinian and German hijackers seized the plane in 1976, has died in France aged 95.
The plane, carrying some 260 people from Tel Aviv to Paris, had stopped off in Athens, where the hijackers got on board and demanded it change course.
The hostage drama ended six days later at Entebbe airport in Uganda, when Israeli commandos stormed the terminal.
Bacos died in the French city of Nice.
Awarded France's highest civilian accolade, the Légion d'Honneur, he told the BBC in 2016 that as captain "it would be impossible for me to leave my passengers, unimaginable".
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47719367
Michel Bacos had told his fellow crew they should stay with the hostages until the drama was over (Getty Images)
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Entebbe pilot Michel Bacos who stayed with hostages dies (Original Post)
Eugene
Mar 2019
OP
In 1941, at the age of 17, Capt. Bacos volunteered for the Free French forces
RHMerriman
Mar 2019
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pdxflyboy
(675 posts)1. RIP, Captain.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)2. RIP
Mosby
(16,297 posts)3. a person of integrity, may he RIP.
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,957 posts)4. Godspeed!
leanforward
(1,076 posts)5. Merci beaucoup, Monsieur
I would love to hear about his time in the air, from his solo to the last flight.
RHMerriman
(1,376 posts)6. In 1941, at the age of 17, Capt. Bacos volunteered for the Free French forces
In 1941, at the age of 17, Capt. Bacos volunteered for the Free French forces, to fight the Nazis and help liberate his nation.
Courage personified.