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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.
May 14, 1928: The first hijacking of an airplane in the United States occurred on the afternoon of this day, when a 28-year-old pilot named Harry W. Anderson was brutally attacked with a ball-peen hammer by his sole passenger, 18-year-old Clarence René Frechette, in an apparent suicide attempt.
July 11 A Cubana de Aviación aircraft is hijacked at Cienfuegos, Cuba (Cienfuegos Airport) resulting in one fatality. The two hijackers were taken down and the hijacking lasted less than one day. July 24 A man born in Cuba successfully hijacks a DC-8 from Miami to Cuba, a stewardess and a passenger are wounded.
Lufthansa Flight 181 was a Boeing 737-230C jetliner (reg. D-ABCE) named Landshut that was hijacked on 13 October 1977 by four members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who called themselves Commando Martyr Halima. The objective of the hijacking was to secure the release of imprisoned Red Army Faction leaders in German prisons.
- 13–18 October 1977 (5 days)
- 86 plus 4 hijackers
- 4 (1 crew, 3 hijackers)
- Mogadishu, Somali Democratic Republic
1977 Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134 hijacking; Aeroméxico Flight 576; 2006 Afghan hijackers case; Afriqiyah Airways Flight 209; 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
La piratería aérea (también conocida como secuestro de aeronaves o secuestro aéreo) es el secuestro de una aeronave por un individuo o grupo. 1 En la mayoría de los casos, el piloto se ve obligado a volar bajo las órdenes de los secuestradores.
Fatalities. 0. Injuries. 1. Survivors. 35. The hijacking of Southern Airways Flight 49 started on November 10, 1972 in Birmingham, Alabama, stretching over 30 hours, three countries, and 4,000 miles (6,400 km), not ending until the next evening in Havana, Cuba. [1]