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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. [1]
1919 (exact date unknown, possibly between March–July): During the chaotic aftermath of World War I, Hungarian aristocrat and geologist Baron Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás became the first person in history to hijack an airplane [dubious – discuss] in a desperate plot to flee persecution at the hands of the communist regime of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, after Franz was unable to ...
Aircraft hijacking, the unlawful seizure of an aircraft by an individual or a group; Carjacking, a robbery in which the item stolen is a motor vehicle;
The Hague Hijacking Convention (formally the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft) is a multilateral treaty by which states agree to prohibit and punish aircraft hijacking. [1] The convention does not apply to customs, law enforcement or military aircraft, thus it applies exclusively to civilian aircraft.
The Tu-154 aircraft, registered RA-85556, which had been in service since 1982, was flying from Moscow to Sochi. According to an unnamed government source of the Russian news agency Interfax, the plane had broadcast a hijack warning while flying over Rostov Oblast at 22:59.
The plane is later destroyed in a suicide bombing the next year. [21] August 9, 1961 Pan Am Flight 501, a DC-8, is hijacked to Cuba. [22] On the same day, a Cubana C-46 experienced an attempted hijacking by 5 Cubans. Two guards on the plane tried to stop the hijacking. A gun battle killed the captain, a hijacker and one guard.
Lists of aircraft hijackings (4 P) A. Airliner accidents and incidents caused by hijacking (2 C, 18 P) D. Dawson's Field hijackings (21 P, 1 F) E. Operation Entebbe ...
The hijacking finally came to an end when the plane landed once again in Havana on Saturday, November 11, after traveling for some 30 hours and 4,000 miles (6,400 km). Multiple sources alleged the runway was covered in foam at the time of the landing, a claim the plane's co-pilot has denied. [3]