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Capt. Michel Bacos, Entebbe hijacking hero, dies at 95

Michel Bacos chose to stay with his Jewish passengers who were being held hostage in Entebbe, Uganda, in 1976. He “took over immediately as a real captain and as a real commander, remembers one of the youngest passengers on the flight.

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