This aircraft was destroyed on 1st August 1982 during 14 hours of non-stop bombing of Beirut by Israelis as a reprisal for the shooting by PLO terrorists of the Israeli Ambassador to the UK. Six MEA Boeing 707s and 720s were destroyed.
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