I loaded my AK-47 and I opened the safety pin and my friend was sitting beside me.

Shout-on to me you are not supposed to open the safety pin to load the weapon within a plane.

Todding shot up this is a real war and he suddenly made this transformation in his mind.

And I made this transformation a few hours before that.

A mere offer was heading into one of the biggest firefights in Israeli Special Forces history.

An air-france flight from Tel Aviv to Paris had been hijacked and brought to Antebe airport in Uganda, Africa.

The terrorists demanded a $5 million ransom and the release of 53 Palestinian and pro-Palestinian militants.

But Israel had a policy of never negotiating with terrorists.

Instead, they called up their top secret counterterrorism team known as Seir et Mottkal to perform a daring near impossible rescue mission.

Welcome to covert, a show about the shadowy world of international espionage and top secret military operations.

My issue was at that time to make sure that we can get the hail out of them.

I'm Jamie Rennell and I'm going to take you inside history's greatest special operations missions to learn about the brave soldiers who risked their lives to terminate the world's most wanted men, eliminate terrorist threats and protect countless innocent lives.

They were totally sure that they are now going to be executed. There was no question they didn't think that anyone coming to save them.

This week's episode we continue the story of Israel's special forces saving hundreds of passengers on Bordeaux hijacked plane.

This is in Tebe, hostage rescue part 2.

There were terrorists. There were German terrorists from the Battle Mine of Gang.

The gun dictator was about the information of the intelligence that we got, what that there were between 200 and 1000 soldiers in this specific airbase.

When you think that you are 29 against, let's say 1000 and about 8 to 15 terrorists who are opening their eyes on 100 hostages and the goal of the mission is not to kill terrorists but to prevent them from killing someone else.

Which can be done within a second, it's a crazy operation.

The Israeli rescue planes had crossed nearly 2000 miles of hostile airspace to get to in Tebe.

Joshua Shani was piloting the plane carrying the attack force. As they got to the border between Kenya and Uganda, the pilots broke formation and separated.

Shani continued directly toward in Tebe, while the others approached the airport from another direction.

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