Word: hijacker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said an American Airlines spokesman. But the Federal Aviation Administration is not satisfied: in March the agency reported that American had failed to detect weapons in 24 security tests in 1988, the worst performance among the 26 carriers that were fined. If the FAA determines that American let the hijack weapons get through, said an agency spokeswoman, "the carrier would certainly be subject to a $10,000 penalty...
More precisely, it appeared that the terrorists came to hijack -- and stayed to kill once their plans went awry. Three hours before the shooting began, a rental car loaded with explosives blew up in the Athens suburb where the Poros was due to dock later in the day; the two people in the car were killed. Greek police speculated that the terrorists planned to take over the vessel, bring the explosives onto the ship and turn the Poros, with 505 aboard, into a floating bomb. The gunmen on the vessel might have learned of the car explosion and decided...
That made it all the more puzzling last week when the family attempted to hijack a Soviet airliner, an incident that climaxed in a moment of supreme horror. According to Soviet press reports, Ninel and ten of her children boarded an Aeroflot Tu-154 jetliner at Irkutsk, bound for Leningrad 2,900 miles away. Their luggage included a double-bass case, which was too big to pass through the airport X-ray machines but which family members insisted was too valuable to put in the cargo hold. About halfway through the long journey, the trouble began. Two of the Ovechkin...
Izvestia, in its report on the hijack, quoted the note as saying: "Fly to a capitalist country [London]. Don't fly any lower. Otherwise we'll explode a bomb...
...hijack crisis began with a rumor broadcast on CNN that top Bob Dole Advisers David Keene and Donald Devine had seized control of the chaotic campaign by taking over the candidate's plane. Campaign Chairman Bill Brock was vexed enough to fly from Washington in order to confront Keene, the apparent ringleader, in Orlando, near Disney World...