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Air France Flight 8969 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1283 words) |
 | Air France Flight 8969 (AF8969, AFR8969) was an Air France flight that was hijacked on December 24, 1994 at Algiers. |
| It was believed that the hijackers wanted as much fuel as possible, making the Airbus into a flying bomb and that the GIA planned to either fly the plane into the Eiffel Tower in Paris or blow it up over the city. |
| They caught the first hijacker off guard as he was sprinting down the aisle, but the other hijackers in the cockpit area returned a barrage of automatic weapons fire that struck a gendarme in the chest. |
| Hijacking - MSN Encarta (892 words) |
| A notable historical example of this practice was the frequent theft of illicit liquor by rival gangs during the era of Prohibition in the 1920s. |
| Hijacking in the air, also called skyjacking or air piracy, is defined as the forcible commandeering of an aircraft while in flight. |
| One famous example was the June 1976 hijacking by Palestinian and West German terrorists of an Air France plane to an airport in Entebbe, Uganda. |
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