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airplane hijacking

noun as in air piracy

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Netanyahu’s own brother, Yonatan, led an elite commando squad that successfully rescued 98 hostages from an airplane hijacking in Entebbe, Uganda, in 1976.

The first airplane hijacking happened in 1931 in Peru.

From Salon

No politician has the guts to reject the idea of another turn of the screw, let alone roll things back and be held responsible for an airplane hijacking.

From Slate

Cooper Filmmaker John Dower’s new documentary explores the only still-unsolved airplane hijacking in U.S. history, a saga that continues to inspire wild speculation about the identity of the perpetrator 50 years later.

An airplane hijacking leaves a diplomat and other Westerners in the Tibetan utopia Shangri-La.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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