Happy Trails
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A good innings at 95 and well deserved.
And nice to see a positive story about an AF pilot.
Hero pilot who stayed with Entebbe hostages dies
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.
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".
And nice to see a positive story about an AF pilot.
Hero pilot who stayed with Entebbe hostages dies
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.
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".
