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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.
August 1, 1984: an Air France Boeing 737-200 en route from Frankfurt to Paris with 82 passengers and crew aboard was hijacked by 3 hijackers who demanded to be taken to Tehran. [138] They were Arab protesters against military cooperation between France and Iraq on the Iran–Iraq War context. One steward escaped from the hijacker in Larnaca.
No one was injured. 3 June 2021 Air France Flight 865, a Boeing 787-9 (registered as F-HRBF) en route from N'Djamena, Chad to Charles-De Gaulle Airport was escorted until landing in Paris by a French Air Force jet after receiving an anonymous threat regarding the presence of an explosive device on board. The aircraft landed normally, and the ...
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Scholars of political science and terrorism studies have characterized the hijacking as a new era of terrorism as the first aviation attack motivated by political aims. [5] [6] According to David C. Rapoport, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the modern wave of left-wing terrorism began with the hijacking of the El Al Flight 426 in the ...
According to Algerian veterans of the Afghan jihad who founded the GIA, the idea of forming an armed group to fight jihad against the Algerian government was developed not after the coup but in 1989 after leaders of the Islamic Armed Movement (MIA) of Mustafa Bouyali, were freed from prison, but was not acted on due to the spectacular electoral political success of the FIS. [27]
The FIS had urged Algerians to boycott the election and the GIA threatened to kill anyone who voted (using the slogan "one vote, one bullet"), but turnout was relatively high among the pious middle class who had formerly supported the FIS but become disillusioned by the "endless violence and racketeering by gangs of young men in the name of jihad."
The airliner departs for Algiers, where authorities coordinate Ali Atwa's release to the hijackers. Castro then frees Uli, who ultimately cannot accept her freedom while leaving the others onboard. She convinces one of the newer hijackers, who has taken on an authoritative role onboard, to free the remaining women - including the flight attendants.