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  2. Hijack 1971 - Wikipedia

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    Hijack 1971 (Korean: 하이재킹; lit. Hijacking) is a 2024 South Korean action thriller film written by Kim Kyeong-chan and directed by Kim Seong-han, starring Ha Jung-woo, Yeo Jin-goo, Sung Dong-il and Chae Soo-bin. The film is based on the hijack attempt of a Korean Air F27 airliner in 1971. It was released theatrically on June 21, 2024. [3 ...

  3. 1971 Indian Airlines hijacking - Wikipedia

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    On 30 January 1971, an Indian Airlines domestic Fokker F27, also named "Ganga", flying from Srinagar Airport to the Jammu-Satwari Airport, was hijacked by two Kashmiri separatists belonging to the National Liberation Front (NLF, the antecedent of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front). The hijackers were Hashim Qureshi and his cousin Ashraf Qureshi.

  4. Korean Air Lines YS-11 hijacking - Wikipedia

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    The South Korean police initially suspected that the co-pilot conspired with two North Korean agents in the hijacking. [7] The night after the hijacking, 100,000 South Koreans held a mass rally in freezing weather to protest about the hijacking, and burned an effigy of Kim Il Sung. [8] On 25 December, North Korea proposed to hold talks on the ...

  5. List of aircraft hijackings - Wikipedia

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    This was a copycat hijacking, modelled on the D.B Cooper 1971 hijacking of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, less than 5 months prior. The aircraft was a Boeing 727 with aft stairs (the same equipment used in the D. B. Cooper incident), via which McCoy escaped in mid-flight by parachute after giving the crew similar instructions to what ...

  6. Paul Joseph Cini - Wikipedia

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    Paul Joseph Cini (born c. 1944) [1] is a Canadian plane hijacker who is noted as the first person to plan a skyjacking with a planned escape by use of a parachute. [2] In November 1971 Cini boarded Air Canada Flight 812, and—posing as an international terrorist—proceeded to hijack the plane.

  7. Richard McCoy Jr. - Wikipedia

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    Richard Floyd McCoy Jr. (December 7, 1942 – November 9, 1974) was an American aircraft hijacker.McCoy hijacked a United Airlines passenger jet for ransom in April 1972. . Due to a similar modus operandi, McCoy has been proposed as the person responsible for the November 1971 hijacking of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, attributed to the still-unidentified "D. B. Coop

  8. D. B. Cooper copycat hijackings - Wikipedia

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    The apparent success and instant notoriety of the hijacker known as D. B. Cooper in November 1971 resulted in over a dozen copycat hijackings within the next year all using a similar template to that established by Cooper. Like Cooper, the plan would be to hijack an aircraft, demand a ransom, and then parachute from that aircraft as a method of ...

  9. Hijack (1973 film) - Wikipedia

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    Hijack! is a 1973 American made-for-television action drama thriller film directed by Leonard Horn and starring David Janssen, Keenan Wynn and Lee Purcell. [1] Plot