Air France Flight 8969
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Air France Flight 8969 was an Air France Airbus A300 flight that was hijacked on 24 December 1994 by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria at Houari Boumediene Airport, Algiers. The militants murdered th
F-GBEC, the aircraft involved in the hijacking, seen in August 1994
Algerian Civil War
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The Algerian Civil War, known in Algeria as the Black Decade, was a civil war fought between the Algerian government and various Islamist rebel groups from 11 January 1992 to 8 February 2002. The war
Air France Flight 8969
…the plane and killed all four hijackers. The incident led to Air France halting their flights to Algeria until 2004, two years after the end of the Algerian Civil War. Algeria was in a state of civil war at the time of the hijacking. Aircraft flying to Algeria faced the possibility of missile attacks. As a result…
Algerian military deployed in the streets of Algiers after the military coup against the Islamists, 12 January 1992