What are some other famous aircraft hijackings apart from 9/11?

Question

What are some other famous aircraft hijackings apart from 9/11?

Answer 1

In 1976 terrorists hijacked an Air France flight and forced it to fly to Entebbe, Uganda. A few days later an Israeli force flew in and rescued most of the hostages; 3 or 4 were killed.

There's a movie, Raid on Entebbe, and a ton of other material on this one.

Answer 2

1976: The week-long hijack of an Air France airliner in 1976 is brought to an abrupt end at Entebbe Airport, Uganda, by Israeli commandos; they kill all the Palestinian hijackers and free 105 mostly Israeli hostages, but three passengers and one commando die in the raid  

Answer 3

Well since 9/11, NONE.

That banning of box cutters really did the trick.

Answer 4

Not that any hijackings are great, but this one has got to be my favourite, as no-one was killed, and it has been shrouded in mystery ever since...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Coope...

Answer 5

Indian airlines Airbus A300B4

Answer 6

the one that sticks in my mind is the "raid at entebbe"idi amin captured a group of isrealis and was holding them hostage,isreali commandos flew in ,sacked the place and rescued all their citizens bar one,an old lady too ill to travel who was left in a hospital at entebbe and died soon afterwards

Answer 7

The longest hijacking incident happened in 1968, when passengers from an El Al plane were held for 40 days after Palestinian militants forced a flight from Rome to divert to Algiers. The Algerian authorities held 22 hostages, releasing the final 12 only after a boycott by international pilots.

Other hijackings in recent decades include:

    1970: Palestinian gunmen force three planes with a total of 400 people on board to fly to the Jordanian desert, where the hijackers blow up the aircraft - from the United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland - after releasing most of the hostages; after 24 days of talks, the final hostages are freed in exchange for seven Palestinian prisoners

  1976: The week-long hijack of an Air France airliner in 1976 is brought to an abrupt end at Entebbe Airport, Uganda, by Israeli commandos; they kill all the Palestinian hijackers and free 105 mostly Israeli hostages, but three passengers and one commando die in the raid

   1977: German commandos storm a Lufthansa airliner in Mogadishu, Somalia, after a five-day stand-off during which Palestinian guerrillas have killed the plane's pilot; three hijackers die in the raid, while 86 hostages are freed

  1981: A Pakistan International Airlines jet is hijacked and taken to the Afghan capital, Kabul, where one passenger is killed before the plane flies on to Damascus; the hostages are finally released after 13 days when the Pakistani Government agrees to free more than 50 political prisoners

  1984: Two American passengers are killed after s**+'a gunmen divert a Kuwait Airways flight to Tehran; the stand-off ends after six days when Iranian security forces disguised as cleaners storm the plane

1985: One American is killed and 39 are held for 17 days when Lebanese s**+'a gunmen divert a TWA flight from Athens to Beirut with 153 people on board; the stand-off ends after Israel frees 31 mostly s**+'a Lebanese prisoners

  1985: Fifty-nine people die when Egyptian commandos storm an EgyptAir plane seized by Palestinians and flown to Malta

1986: Twenty-two people die when Pakistani security forces storm a Pan Am flight carrying 400 passengers and crew after a 16-hour siege

  1988: Two Kuwaitis are killed in 1988 when s**+'a gunmen hijack a Kuwait Airways flight from Thailand and force it to fly to Algiers with more than 110 people on board; the hijack ends after 16 days when the hijackers free the remaining hostages and are allowed to leave Algiers

  1991: Singaporean commandos shoot dead all four hijackers who seized a Singapore Airlines flight

    * 1993: Two hijackers and a woman passenger die when security forces storm a hijacked Ethiopian Airlines plane in eastern Ethiopia

   1998: Pakistani commandos overpower and arrest three hijackers of a Pakistan International Airlines plane at Hyderabad airport; all 29 hostages are freed

   1999: Kashmiri militants hijack an Indian Airlines aircraft and force it to divert to Kandahar in Afghanistan; one passenger is killed and a week-long stand-off ensues before India agrees to release three jailed Kashmiri militants in exchange for the safe release of the remaining hostages

    February 2000: Afghans seeking to escape the Taleban regime hijack an internal Ariana flight with 164 people on board and force it to divert to Stansted airport near London; a three-day stand-off takes place before the hijackers give themselves up without harming any of the hostages

  October 2000: Two Saudis seeking to highlight alleged human rights abuses in their country divert a Saudi Arabian Airlines plane to Baghdad before surrendering to the Iraqi authorities

March 2001: Saudi Arabian security forces storm a Vnukovo Airlines plane at Medina airport after it is taken over by Chechen separatists during a flight from Istanbul to Moscow; more than 100 passengers and crew are freed, but three people - one of the hijackers, a Russian air stewardess and a Turkish passenger - are killed

Answer 8

One of the more infamous hijackings was Ethiopian Airlines flight 961 in 1996, made infamous because its crash-landing into the ocean was captured on videotape.

50 of the 175 aboard survived, including the 2 pilots.

Answer 9

DB Cooper, they even made a movie of it.  They are still hunting for the money.

Answer 10

thts not nice

Answer 11

DB Cooper thats about it

Answer 12

What about the 1994 of Air France flight 8969.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VojjUIgcc...