It was redirected to an airstrip in the Jordanian desert, and joined by two others. Passengers were held hostage for six days before the hijackers released them unharmed, and blew up the planes. It was a shocking event that drew headlines around the world. “I love school!” she wrote in her diary the first week back. “Everything’s great!”Even decades later, Hodes, now a historian at New York University, brought it up only with close friends, and then only offhandedly.

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Persons: Martha Hodes, Hodes, “, ” Organizations: Popular Front, Liberation, Palestine, New York University Locations: New York, Israel, Jordanian