Flight 426
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Flight 426 is the El Al commercial airliner that was hijacked in 1968 in one of the early notable incidents of modern aviation hijacking.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Flight 426 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18446235 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Flight 426 Context triple: [1968 El Al Flight 426 hijacking, flightNumber, Flight 426]
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A.
BEA Flight 609
BEA Flight 609 was the British European Airways charter flight that crashed in 1958 at Munich-Riem Airport, a tragedy remembered as the Munich air disaster that killed many Manchester United players and staff.
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B.
Braniff Flight 542
Braniff Flight 542 was a 1959 Braniff Airways domestic passenger flight that broke up in midair near Buffalo, Texas, killing all aboard and becoming one of the early fatal accidents involving the Lockheed L-188 Electra.
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C.
Flight 16P
Flight 16P was the historic SpaceShipOne mission that achieved the first privately funded human spaceflight into suborbital space.
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D.
Flight 4590
Flight 4590 was the Air France Concorde flight that crashed shortly after takeoff from Paris in 2000, marking the only fatal accident involving the supersonic airliner.
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E.
United Airlines Flight 553
United Airlines Flight 553 was a 1972 domestic passenger flight that crashed while approaching Chicago Midway Airport, killing several people including Dorothy Hunt, the wife of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt, and later becoming the subject of political controversy and conspiracy theories.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Flight 426 Target entity description: Flight 426 is the El Al commercial airliner that was hijacked in 1968 in one of the early notable incidents of modern aviation hijacking.
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A.
BEA Flight 609
BEA Flight 609 was the British European Airways charter flight that crashed in 1958 at Munich-Riem Airport, a tragedy remembered as the Munich air disaster that killed many Manchester United players and staff.
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B.
Braniff Flight 542
Braniff Flight 542 was a 1959 Braniff Airways domestic passenger flight that broke up in midair near Buffalo, Texas, killing all aboard and becoming one of the early fatal accidents involving the Lockheed L-188 Electra.
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C.
Flight 16P
Flight 16P was the historic SpaceShipOne mission that achieved the first privately funded human spaceflight into suborbital space.
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D.
Flight 4590
Flight 4590 was the Air France Concorde flight that crashed shortly after takeoff from Paris in 2000, marking the only fatal accident involving the supersonic airliner.
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E.
United Airlines Flight 553
United Airlines Flight 553 was a 1972 domestic passenger flight that crashed while approaching Chicago Midway Airport, killing several people including Dorothy Hunt, the wife of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt, and later becoming the subject of political controversy and conspiracy theories.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.