A week earlier , on 27 June , an Air France Airbus A300 with 248 passengers had been hijacked Kidnapping by two members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations ( PFLP-EO ) under orders Arranging of Wadie Haddad ( who had earlier broken Bodily_harm away from the PFLP of George Habash ) , and two members of the German Revolutionary Cells .

The three perpetrators—Kōzō Okamoto , Tsuyoshi Okudaira , and Yasuyuki Yasuda—had been trained Education_teaching in Baalbek , Lebanon ; the actual planning Arranging was handled Resolve_problem by Wadie Haddad ( a.k.a .