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Air France Flight 8969 was an Air France flight that was hijacked on 24 December 1994 by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria (GIA) at Houari Boumediene Airport, Algiers.The militants murdered three passengers and their intention was either to detonate the aircraft over the Eiffel Tower or the Tour Montparnasse in Paris.
Max Lejeune , Secretary of State for the Armed Forces, and Henri Lorillot and other French generals in Algiers were responsible for the operation, without interference from Robert Lacoste, French resident minister and governor general of Algiers at the time. [1] The hijacking and arrest of the FLN leadership derailed the planned conference in ...
Air France Flight 8969 was an Air France Airbus A300 that was hijacked on 24 December 1994 by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria (GIA) at Houari Boumediene Airport, Algiers, Algeria during the Algerian Civil War. The terrorists murdered three passengers and their intention was to blow up the plane over the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
December 24, 1994: Air France Flight 8969 was hijacked from Algiers by four GIA hijackers planning to crash into the Eiffel Tower in central Paris. After the murder of 3 passengers, GIGN commandos stormed the plane in Marseille, killing all hijackers and freeing all remaining passengers.
Air France Flight 8969: Algiers, Algeria, Marseille, France 24 December 1994: 3 days 232 1994 kidnappings of western tourists in India: New Delhi, India 20 October 1994: 12 days 4 Torp hostage crisis: Larvik and Sandefjord, Norway 28 August 1994: 2 days Gresham cat hostage taking incident: Gresham, Oregon, United States: 21 August 1994: Unknown ...
The Assault (French: L'Assaut) is a 2010 French action thriller film directed by Julien Leclercq, based on the 1994 hijacking of Air France Flight 8969 by Algerian Islamic fundamentalist terrorists and the raid to free the hostages by the GIGN, the elite counter-terrorism unit of the French National Gendarmerie. [3]
Tahar Djaout assassination, Djillali Liabes assassination, Cheb Hasni assassination, 1994, Air France Flight 8969 hijacking, January 1995 Algiers bombing, 1995 France bombings, Murder of the monks of Tibhirine, Lounès Matoub assassination, Hidroelektra workers massacre
Air France Flight 8969 hijacking (1994) Sahara hostage crisis 2003; In Amenas hostage crisis (2013) ... (31 miles) from Algiers. [1] The Special Intervention Group ...