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  • Thumbnail for Maersk Alabama hijacking
    The Maersk Alabama hijacking began on 8 April 2009, when four pirates in the Somali Basin seized the Danish/U.S. cargo ship Maersk Alabama at a distance...
    33 KB (3,124 words) - 16:45, 3 September 2024
  • withdrawn from service but was re-inducted days before the hijacking. India retaliated to the hijacking and subsequent burning by banning overflights of Pakistani...
    13 KB (1,264 words) - 12:07, 8 September 2024
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    the only confirmed physical evidence from the hijacking found outside the aircraft. During the hijacking, Cooper demanded and received two main parachutes...
    240 KB (25,653 words) - 04:32, 10 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Entebbe raid
    soldiers were deployed to support the hijackers after the flight landed, and Amin, who had been informed of the hijacking from the beginning, had personally...
    82 KB (8,079 words) - 21:32, 31 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Unmanned aerial vehicle
    An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board. UAVs were originally...
    150 KB (13,989 words) - 17:23, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aerial warfare
    Aerial warfare is the use of military aircraft and other flying machines in warfare. Aerial warfare includes bombers attacking enemy installations or...
    16 KB (1,742 words) - 14:53, 5 February 2024
  • Bell Bottom (2021 film) (category Films about aircraft hijackings)
    real life hijacking events in India by Khalistani terrorists during the 1980s, such as the Indian Airlines Flight 423, 405 and 421 hijackings. Principal...
    27 KB (2,419 words) - 16:27, 3 September 2024
  • The Santa Maria hijacking was carried out on 22 January 1961 when Portuguese and Spanish political rebels seized control of a Portuguese passenger ship...
    8 KB (996 words) - 19:54, 26 August 2024
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    American Airlines Flight 77 (category Airliner accidents and incidents caused by hijacking)
    the airplane. After learning of a second hijacking involving an American Airlines aircraft and the hijacking of a United Airlines jet, American Airlines'...
    94 KB (10,070 words) - 04:07, 10 September 2024
  • flights for Tel Aviv were searched for weapons to avert a possible new aerial hijacking. The Netherlands' Chief of Protocol also phoned the Israeli Ambassador...
    7 KB (569 words) - 18:58, 12 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident
    the company knew, Russell did not have a pilot's license. Beck said the aerial maneuvers were "incredible" and that he "did not know how [Russell] achieved...
    32 KB (2,965 words) - 20:14, 21 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aerial ramming
    Aerial ramming or air ramming is the ramming of one aircraft with another. It is a last-ditch tactic in air combat, sometimes used when all else has failed...
    43 KB (5,660 words) - 21:18, 6 September 2024
  • of Hijacking is a 2013 narrative nonfiction book by the American author Brendan I. Koerner. It is a history of the "golden age" of aircraft hijacking in...
    6 KB (510 words) - 12:45, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for United Air Lines Flight 629
    Johnson Books. ISBN 1-55566-363-X. Gero, David (1997). Flights of Terror: Aerial Hijack and Sabotage Since 1930. Haynes Publishing. ISBN 1-85260-512-X. Civil...
    19 KB (2,119 words) - 06:01, 27 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Federal Express Flight 705
    Federal Express Flight 705 (category Aircraft hijackings in the United States)
    their injuries would appear consistent with an accident rather than a hijacking. The CVR, however, was switched back on by the flight engineer, believing...
    21 KB (2,349 words) - 19:46, 8 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Shahed drones
    Shahed drones are unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) and loitering munitions (exploding kamikaze drones) developed by Iranian company Shahed Aviation...
    35 KB (3,317 words) - 16:35, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of missing aircraft
    "recovered" Category:Missing aviators Category:Missing air passengers Category:Aerial disappearances of military personnel in action "International Standards...
    143 KB (3,796 words) - 16:11, 31 August 2024
  • Captain Phillips (film) (category Films about ship hijackings)
    action-thriller film directed by Paul Greengrass. Based on the 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking, the film tells the story of Captain Richard Phillips, an American merchant...
    50 KB (3,754 words) - 18:26, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Anatoly Kornukov
    Russian Federation in matters of missile defense and defense against aerial hijacker terrorist attacks against Russian cities. Against the terrorist threat...
    17 KB (1,848 words) - 09:04, 2 September 2024
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    Aircraft (redirect from Aerial vehicle)
    aeronautics. Crewed aircraft are flown by an onboard pilot, whereas unmanned aerial vehicles may be remotely controlled or self-controlled by onboard computers...
    53 KB (5,938 words) - 01:31, 21 August 2024
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