He truly had nine lives, four of which are recorded in the Guardian Obituary.
In November 1942, having been injured by anti-aircraft fire over northern Holland, he flew the damaged aircraft back, on one engine. The remaining engine failed over East Anglia, the bomber crashed into a wood, and yet Levy and his navigator survived.
His plane was hit – while raiding Mannheim – by a Luftwaffe nightfighter
over Hanover, a bomb from another aircraft plunged through his Halifax, without detonating over Hanover
On his (50th ) birthday (on 8th May 1972), he was flying a Boeing 707, with Dora and 89 other passengers, from Brussels to Lod airport, near Tel Aviv, via Vienna. Twenty minutes after takeoff from the Austrian capital, and at 30,000ft, Levy's career collided with the Israel-Palestine conflict. Two men asserting membership of the Palestinian Black September Organisation (BSO) broke into the cockpit with pistols and a grenade, while their comrades, two women with plastic explosives, remained in the cabin.