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Israel Returns Detained Plane to Lebanon; “good Behavior” Cited

June 11, 1959
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A Government spokesman announced today that a Lebanese reconnaissance plane, forced down while photographing Israel sites last week, has been returned to Lebanon as a “gesture of Israel recognition of Lebanon’s positive behavior in the past.”

Two Lebanese flyers arrived at the Rasnqura border post where they met Israel officers and United Nations observers who escorted the flyers to the Haifa port where the plane was being detained. The flyers then boarded the plane and flew it off to Lebanon. The crew of the plane had been released previously by Israel.

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