Aircraft hijacking
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Aircraft hijacking is the unlawful seizure of an aircraft by an individual or a group. Dating from the earliest of hijackings, most cases involve the pilot being forced to fly according to the hijacke
An FAA warning at Washington National Airport prohibiting hijacking and concealed weapons, 1969
Warning posters in a Central African airport, 2012
Hijacking assault simulation by South African special forces
Royal Canadian Air Force and Russian Air Force fighter aircraft during a training exercise for intercepting and transferring a hijacked airliner between Russian and American airspace in 2013
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
Aircraft hijacking
…hijackers and the authorities, during negotiation and settlement. In several cases – most famously Air France Flight 139, Lufthansa Flight 181, and Air France Flight 8969 – the hijackers were not satisfied and showed no inclination to surrender, resulting in the deployment of counterterrorist police tactical units or…
F-GBEC, the aircraft involved in the hijacking, seen in August 1994