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The Lufthansa heist was a robbery which took place at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport on December 11, 1978. An estimated US$5.875 million (equivalent to US$28.32 million in 2024) was stolen, with $5 million in cash and $875,000 in jewelry, making it the largest cash robbery committed in the U.S. at the time.
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]
The book is about the 1978 robbery of the Lufthansa Airline cargo building at Kennedy Airport. This robbery stands as the largest unrecovered cash theft in history. [citation needed] In 1967, Hill conspired with an Air France cargo foreman to burglarize the Air France high-value vault. Hill cleverly eluded the authorities and drove out of ...
National Airlines Flight 102 (N8102/NCR102) was a cargo flight operated by National Airlines between Camp Shorabak (formerly Camp Bastion) near the city of Lashkargah in Afghanistan and Al Maktoum Airport in Dubai, with a refueling stop at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.
The plane narrowly missed [clarification needed], sliding on the area and in the process, hitting a two-story house in the Liepkalnis neighborhood, approximately 1.3 kilometres (0.8 mi; 0.7 nmi) north of the airport, and crashed on its property, causing a fire that reached the house.
The Air France robbery was a major robbery that took place in April 1967, when associates of the Lucchese crime family stole $420,000 ($2.93 million in 2023 [1]) from the Air France cargo terminal at New York City's JFK International Airport.
Transair Flight 810 was a Boeing 737-200 converted freighter aircraft, owned and operated by Rhoades Aviation under the Transair trade name, on a short cargo flight en route from Honolulu International Airport to Kahului Airport on the neighboring Hawaiian island of Maui on July 2, 2021.
The incident aircraft was a Boeing 727-223 airliner, serial number 20985, [2] manufactured in 1975 and operated by American Airlines for 25 years until 2000. Its last owner was reported to be a US company called Aerospace Sales & Leasing. [3]