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http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=95001213

From news article:
The terrorists were demanding that Capt. Bar-Lev open the cockpit door. One of the cockpit crew suggested he comply, because according to International Air Transport Association rules he was responsible for the welfare of the passengers. But Capt. Bar-Lev quickly decided he would have no control over their destiny if he surrendered. "My reply was, 'Sit down, we are not going to be hijacked.' "

Figuring almost everyone but the hijackers would be strapped in, Capt. Bar-Lev put the plane into a negative-G dive--a downward arc often used to train astronauts to experience weightlessness. Sure enough, the hijackers were thrown from their feet, and the two plainclothes El Al marshals on board pounced. The male hijacker was killed, and the woman knocked unconscious. After her blond wig was pulled back, they realized she was the notorious Leila Khaled, who had hijacked a TWA plane to Damascus, Syria, the previous year in an attempt to capture Yitzhak Rabin, then Israel's ambassador to Washington. (He had changed flights.)
Capt. Bar-Lev, knowing he had to get his bleeding steward to a hospital, made for London. He also knew the dead hijacker could mean legal problems. He was right. On arrival, he and the crew were detained and questioned by police for hours, but all feigned ignorance as to how the hijacker had died. The marshals, Capt. Bar-Lev now reveals, had slipped out a maintenance door on the bottom of his 707 soon after he hit the tarmac in London, and used the same door to enter another El Al plane awaiting takeoff for Tel Aviv.

The two first-class passengers Capt. Bar-Lev had ordered off, meanwhile, had boarded and hijacked a Pan American 747, also bound from Amsterdam to New York. Pan Am sought damages from El Al, and eventually settled out of court. The British government dropped criminal charges only after being assured the hijacker had not died over British airspace.