Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinians" id="mw4A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Palestinians">Palestinian</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism" id="mw4Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Terrorism">terrorist</a> members of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine" id="mw4g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine">PFLP</a> and taken to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson's_Field_hijackings" id="mw4w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Dawson's Field hijackings">Dawson's Field, Jordan</a>.