LEBANESE PLANE FORCED DOWN
N.Z. Passenger Aboard (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) TEL. AVIV, November 19. The Israeli authorities tonight released the British pilot and four passengers of a Lebanese airliner which Israeli fighter aircraft earlier intercepted and forced to land at Haifa airport. One of the passengers was a New Zealander, Mr Kenneth Allen.
An Israeli military spokesman said the aircraft, which had been .on a flight from Port Said to Beirut, had been allowed to take off. after an inquiry lasting six hours and a half.
It had been alleged that the aircraft, under charter to an Anglo-Lebanese-Jordanian firm, had penetrated Israeli air space.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29058, 21 November 1959, Page 18
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