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A National Airlines Convair 440 flight from Marathon, Florida, to Key West was hijacked by a man carrying a knife and a gun who demanded the flight divert to Havana. The aircraft, piloted by Captain Francis X. Riley, was thought to be lost at sea for several hours before authorities learned it had been hijacked.
Aircraft hijacking (also known as airplane hijacking, skyjacking, plane hijacking, plane jacking, air robbery, air piracy, or aircraft piracy, with the last term used within the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States) is the unlawful seizure of an aircraft by an individual or a group. [1] Dating from the earliest of hijackings, most ...
April 10, 1959 A COHATA DC-3 is hijacked by six rebels. They fatally shot the pilot and forced the co-pilot to fly to Cuba. [8] April 15, 1959 A plane is hijacked from Cuba to Miami. The hijackers were four members of Batista's Army (three were from the SIM—the Military Intelligence—and one was an aviation mechanic).
Pan Am Flight 103. Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via London and New York. On 21 December 1988, N739PA, the aircraft operating the transatlantic leg of the route was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew in what became known as the Lockerbie bombing. [9 ...
United Airlines Flight 175. United Airlines Flight 696. Categories: Aircraft hijackings by country. Aviation accidents and incidents in the United States. Terrorist incidents in the United States. Aircraft hijackings in North America.
1976 September 10: Indian Airlines plane Boeing 737 was hijacked from Palam Airport Delhi by a group of six terrorists from Kashmir: Syed Abdul Hameed Dewani along, Syed M Rafique, M Ahsan Rathore, Abdul Rashid Malik, Ghulam Rasool and Khawaja Ghulam Nabi Itoo. it was scheduled from Delhi to Mumbai. Initially ordered to fly the plane to Libya ...
Air Afrique Flight 056. Air France Flight 139. Air France Flight 8969. 2007 Air Mauritanie hijacking. Air West Flight 612. 1995 Airstan Ilyushin Il-76 hijacking. American Airlines Flight 293. Avianca Flight 9463.
TWA Flight 840. TWA Flight 840 was a Trans World Airlines flight from Leonardo da Vinci International Airport in Rome, Italy, to Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, that was hijacked on 29 August 1969. There were no fatalities although at least two passengers were lightly wounded and the aircraft was significantly damaged.