El Al Airlines installs anti-missile systems on passenger aircraft - Haaretz

Last update - 21:37 15/02/2006

El Al Airlines installs anti-missile systems on passenger aircraft

By Reuters

El Al Israel Airlines has installed anti-missiles systems on its passenger aircraft, completing an overhaul launched after a 2002 attempt to shoot down a plane, security sources said on Wednesday.

They said the "Flight Guard", an Israeli-made system costing around $1 million per unit, was operational on the entire El Al fleet. It was not immediately clear if this applied to five planes leased by El Al as well as its own 29 aircraft.

El Al, Israel's national carrier and largest airline, declined to comment, saying it did not discuss security issues.

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Israel stepped up efforts to adapt military anti-missile
systems for its civilian aircraft after an Israeli charter jet came under attack from shoulder-held missiles in Kenya in 2002.

The missiles, fired by attackers linked to al-Qaida, missed.

Flight Guard was developed by state-owned Israel Military
Industries and the Elta defense firm - a unit of state owned Israel Aircraft Industries. El Al began installing the system in its planes in 2004.

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1.	Isn`t that Typical of the ISRAELIS	19:30	\|	Johanes O`Suliman	15/02/06

2.	Forward thinking company in a forward thinking country	20:14	\|	Nicole	15/02/06

3.	kinda sad but needed	20:38	\|	alan	15/02/06

4.	really, now	21:22	\|	robert	15/02/06

5.	While They Are At It	21:33	\|	Yoram	15/02/06

6.	Johanes --your correct.	21:36	\|	Michael Cohen	15/02/06

7.	Why is Israel always a target?	22:12	\|	BRIAN	15/02/06

8.	#5, yoram	22:16	\|	vladimir	15/02/06

9.	to brian #7	22:18	\|	alan	15/02/06

10.	I`ll tell ya, Brian	22:24	\|	Paul	15/02/06

11.	El Al Airlines defence system	22:50	\|	Todd	15/02/06

12.	# ( how many Palestinians have YOU asked lately?	22:53	\|	BRIAN	15/02/06

13.	Brian #7	22:57	\|	David ben Avraham	15/02/06

14.	reply to Michael Cohen of London	22:58	\|	Ruth Ezekiel-Chern	15/02/06

15.	reply to Nicole London /Tel- Aviv	23:03	\|	Ruth Ezekiel-Chern	15/02/06

16.	Brian	23:12	\|	Robert Weiss	15/02/06

17.	BRIAN	23:36	\|	B	15/02/06

18.	#11 brian	23:45	\|	alan	15/02/06

19.	forward think company	00:01	\|	pinchas	16/02/06

20.	19 out of 20 Palestinians refuse to accept Israel	00:04	\|	Herbert Kaine	16/02/06

21.	to Ruth	00:06	\|	Michael Cohen	16/02/06

22.	brian	00:15	\|	David	16/02/06

23.	to Brian	00:15	\|	Michael Cohen	16/02/06

24.	Brian is right	00:19	\|	Innocent bystander	16/02/06

25.	Brian	00:33	\|	Nick	16/02/06

26.	ECM	00:44	\|	steve	16/02/06

27.	Brian #17	00:46	\|	lorne	16/02/06

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29.	brian	00:49	\|	Devin	16/02/06

30.	El Al Airlines installs anti-missile systems on passenger aircraf	00:50	\|	Jason	16/02/06

31.	To Herbert Kaine	00:51	\|	Vlad Tepish	16/02/06

32.	What the hell is a Palestinian	00:53	\|	Luscious	16/02/06

33.	Poor terrorists	01:05	\|	Robert Lee Beers	16/02/06

34.	The heck with the Jihad - Good for Israel	01:06	\|	Josh	16/02/06

35.	El-Al Installs Anti missile	01:15	\|	Art Rich	16/02/06

36.	What the Hell is a Palestinian???	01:21	\|	Nick	16/02/06

37.	commercial passanger war planes	01:22	\|	david	16/02/06

38.	Brian - fly ElAl and stay alive	01:23	\|	Roy Moses	16/02/06

39.	Palestinean idealogy	01:24	\|	Roger	16/02/06

40.	back to the israelis spending money on planes and missles and stu	01:25	\|	Adam	16/02/06

41.	Palestinians?	01:28	\|	Jerry Hermes	16/02/06

42.	Where is the Haaretz Editorial ?	01:38	\|	Richard Allen	16/02/06

43.	Way to go El Al Airlines !!!!	01:38	\|	John R. Wichita, KS	16/02/06

44.	Tiny Golden	02:01	\|	Kenneth B.	16/02/06

45.	RE: Why is Israel always a target?	02:08	\|	Tom	16/02/06

46.	What is a Palestianian	02:12	\|	Earl D. Litz	16/02/06

47.	re: Paul from tel aviv	02:17	\|	aisha	16/02/06

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49.	Re: Herbert Kaine	02:20	\|	aisha	16/02/06

50.	To Brian in #7	02:21	\|	Jan	16/02/06

51.	scared little people	02:29	\|	peter	16/02/06

52.	Islaaaaaaaaam	02:30	\|	Jan	16/02/06

53.	To #41 The Haaretz editiorial	02:33	\|	Jan	16/02/06

54.	Life	02:39	\|	Michael	16/02/06

55.	El Al Airlines anti-missile system	02:45	\|	Jerry	16/02/06

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57.		02:58	\|	Lola	16/02/06

58.	El Al Anti-Terror Missiles	03:05	\|	Dan	16/02/06

59.	Peter in LA	03:10	\|	Dan	16/02/06

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66.	Anti-missle systems	03:50	\|	David West	16/02/06

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87.	Aren`t we a bit sensitive	16:39	\|	O	16/02/06

88.	Vlad Tepish	16:43	\|	O	16/02/06

89.	Robert Lee Beers- poor terrorists	16:51	\|	O	16/02/06

90.	Brian	17:35	\|	Caitlin	16/02/06

91.	O	22:24	\|	D Dubb	16/02/06

92.	Diverting missles to cities?	22:53	\|	Nancy	16/02/06

93.	#87 Would you not be more sensitive?	23:38	\|	Christian	16/02/06

94.	To Brian from Vancouver	23:39	\|	Motty Levi	16/02/06

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99.	Re:98	09:29	\|	Motty Levi	17/02/06

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