Within '''three''' minutes of the first C-130 landing, four of the seven terrorists had been killed.<ref>[http://www.combatreform2.com/m113combat.htm Combat Reform 2] Accessed July 3 2007</ref>
Once the terrorists had been eliminated, only the Ugandan soldiers stood in the way of a safe escape. The second C-130 landed six minutes after the first and two [[APC|armored personnel carriers ]] (APC's) drove off the cargo ramp and headed to the terminal, where Ugandan resistance was then silenced. Forty-five Ugandan soldiers had been killed. The third C-130 landed a few minutes later, offloading two more APC's; one joined the first two, the second headed off and destroyed 11 MiG-17 fighter jets stationed at the base to prevent the Ugandan Air Force from following them. Fifteen minutes had elapsed from the touch down of the first C-130 landing to the hostages being freed and the area completely secured. A team of Israeli Air Force technicians were already refuelling the C-130's from the airports own supplies, a process that would take well over an hour. At 2352hrs, less than an hour after the first Hercules landed, the C-130 with 106 rescued hostages took off; the last C-130 left Entebbe at 2429hrs, 89 minutes after the first one had landed.<ref>Combat Reform 2 op cit.</ref> Three hostages had been killed by cross-fire during the rescue, and Netanyahu died on board the aircraft he had been evacuated to after his injury.
The freed hostages were taken to Nairobi airport, and then on to Israel. One of the hostages, a 75 year old woman, had earlier been removed from the airport following a choking accident. After the raid, Amin ordered that she be dragged out and executed. Her remains were eventually recovered, dumped in a sugar plantation, in 1979 after the Uganda-Tanzania War led to the overthrow of Amin.
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