They Brought the Plane Home
Dawson’s Field, the foiled hijacking of El Al 219, and the attack on flydubai FZ1073 more than half a century later.
Each film tells one story of terror aimed at Jews and Israelis, from the Dawson’s Field hijackings of 1970 to an attack on a passenger jet in 2026.
Animated, vertical, about four minutes each. Captions in picture over an instrumental score. Nothing violent is shown.
Dawson’s Field, the foiled hijacking of El Al 219, and the attack on flydubai FZ1073 more than half a century later.
It opens inside FZ1073, follows the lie as it spread that same morning, traces it back to 1349, and ends with the passengers coming home.
Daniel Lewin, a former Sayeret Matkal officer and co-founder of Akamai, was most likely the first person killed on September 11. He tried to stop the hijackers.
Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal’s South Asia bureau chief, went to meet a source in Karachi. The meeting was a trap.
The film for the third anniversary, with the names and sources.