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Survivors. 229. 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 terrorists murdered three passengers and their intention was either to detonate the aircraft over the Eiffel Tower or the Tour Montparnasse in Paris.
Box office. $4.3 million [2] 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.
Air France Flight 422: the Air France flight from Bogotá's El Dorado Airport, to Quito, using a Boeing 727 wet-leased from TAME, crashed into a mountain near Bogotá. All 43 passengers and 10 crew died. [92] Although not an Air France plane, the flight was the final segment of an Air France flight originating in Paris. 5 March 1999
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.
The most recent upgrade is a new passenger terminal, opened in 2005, to accommodate the growing number of charter flights and passengers. The airport's plants currently cover a total area of 60,000 m 2 [3] On 21 September 2015, Rhodes Airport was closed for 14 hours after a 'sinkhole' appeared in the runway.
The GIGN (French: Groupe d'intervention de la Gendarmerie nationalepronunciation ⓘ; transl."National Gendarmerie Intervention Group") is the elite police tactical unit of the National Gendarmerie of France. Among its missions are counterterrorism, hostage rescue, surveillance of national threats, protection of government officials, critical ...
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] Dating from the earliest of hijackings, most ...
The Parachute Intervention Squadron of the National Gendarmerie ( French: Escadron Parachutiste d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale, EPIGN) was a parachute-trained tactical unit of the French Gendarmerie. The squadron was formed in 1984 with personnel from EPGM, a one-of-a-kind parachute squadron that had been created within the mobile ...