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Article: Movie with a turbo prop; Airlift to freedom: A Russian Antonov An-12 transport aircraft was used in The Last King Of Scotland.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- July 16, 2008
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Byline: Charles Legge
QUESTION
What is the large four-propeller-engined aircraft that rescues the hostages atthe end of the movie The Last King Of Scotland?
THE final scenes in this film loosely depict Operation Entebbe (or OperationThunderbolt), the hostage-rescue mission carried out by the Israel DefenceForce at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on the night of July 3, 1976.
This was in the wake of the hijacking of Air France flight 139 from Athens (aflight which originated in Lod, Israel, and was carrying 248 passengers and 12crew) by two Palestinians from the PLO who re-routed the plane to Uganda.
They threatened to kill the ...