The Commercial Airline That Can Shoot Down Missiles

El Al is “the world’s most secure airline.”

Matt Lillywhite
Lessons from History
3 min readJul 24, 2023

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El Al Boeing 787–9 Dreamliner by JacobAviation on Wikimedia Commons

Imagine you’re on a flight from the United States to Tel Aviv. As your plane approaches its destination, the seatbelt sign illuminates and a member of the cabin crew asks you to sit down.

Everything seems normal at first. But thousands of feet below, a terrorist just launched a…

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Matt Lillywhite
Lessons from History

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