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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 643

hijackings

An illustrative photo of a private jet. (Eisenlohr via iStock by Getty Images)
April 18, 2025, 9:51 am
US man shot and killed on small plane in Belize after attempting to hijack aircraft
Plane lands safely after assailant stabs three people including pilot; Belizean authorities say motives unclear, hijacker was an American military veteran
By MEGAN JANETSKY and JULIE WATSON
Palestinian terrorists celebrate the blowing up of a Boac Airliner hijacked to Dawson's field, a desert airstrip North of Amman, Jordan, September 14, 1970. (AP Photo)
September 7, 2024, 3:40 pm
On anniversary of 1970 Black September hijacking, six survivors on life after captivity
As Hamas continues to hold 97 hostages kidnapped on October 7, marking the September 6 PFLP terror group’s takeover of four planes paints new wounds in an old light
By Mati Wagner
The Indian Navy thwarts a hijacking attempt of the MV Lila Norfolk in the Arabian Sea, January 5, 2024. (Indian Navy)
January 5, 2024, 9:25 pm
Indian Navy rescues ship crew from hijack attempt in Arabian Sea
21 crew members evacuated after group of armed men boarded MV Lila Norfolk; no group immediately claims responsibility for attack, amid repeated incidents involving Houthis
By Agencies
Debris left over from the Swissair, TWA and BOAC flights that were hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and blown up on a landing strip in the Jordanian desert on September 12, 1970. (AFP)
June 7, 2023, 4:23 pm
Trauma revisited: Historian reconstructs her week aboard a hijacked jet in Jordan
For close to 50 years, Martha Hodes buried memories of being on a plane hijacked by Palestinian terrorists in 1970 – until she decided to uncover all she could about the ordeal
By Amy Spiro
The Greek-flagged oil tanker Prudent Warrior, one of the ships seized by Iran, is seen as it sails past Istanbul, Turkey, April 19, 2019. (Dursun Çam via AP)
May 27, 2022, 11:38 pm
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard seizes two Greek oil tankers in Persian Gulf
Helicopter-launched raids mark the first such incident in months, as tensions rise amid the West’s lagging nuclear talks with the regime; Greece calls incident ‘piracy’
By Jon Gambrell and NICHOLAS PAPHITIS
Security forces help passengers and crew off Sabena flight 571, following its 1972 hijacking at Lod Airport (Ron Ilan/Israel Defense Forces Archive)
May 19, 2022, 4:01 pm
‘Mechanics are en route’: Defense Ministry releases logs from 1972 Sabena hijacking
Military archive marks 50 years since ‘Operation Isotope’ when Sayeret Matkal commandos disguised as technicians stormed flight 571 to rescue passengers from Palestinian terrorists
By Emanuel Fabian
This frame grab from a video shows Iranian Revolutionary Guard speed boats, center, in front of a US warship, left, amid the seizure of a Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker, right, in the Gulf of Oman on November 3, 2021. (Revolutionary Guard via AP)
November 10, 2021, 11:33 am
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says it released seized Vietnamese oil tanker
Tehran says vessel has been emptied of oil cargo; ship suspected of trying to transfer sanctioned Iranian crude to Asia; vessel anchored in international waters; no details on crew
By Agencies
A Shiite Muslim hijacker armed with a Soviet-made AK-47 rifle looks from the open door of the Trans World Airlines jet held at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon, Wednesday, June 19, 1985. (AP Photo/Herve Merliac)
October 9, 2021, 12:43 am
Wanted Hezbollah terrorist behind 1985 TWA hijacking said to have died
Ali Atwi among those sought by FBI for involvement in 17-day ordeal during which US Navy diver Robert Stethem was tortured and murdered; Hezbollah mourns ‘loyal man’
By AFP
Israeli commandos in a black-painted Mercedes-Benz. (Defense Ministry archive)
August 23, 2021, 4:51 am
Entebbe in person: A new oral history challenges official account of 1976 rescue
Brimming with detail and at times looking to settle old scores, newly translated book ‘Entebbe Declassified’ brings voices of the commandos who took part in the legendary operation
By Judah Ari Gross
In this June 14, 2012 photo, the ship that would later become the Asphalt Princess sails through Quebec City, Canada. (Steve Geronazzo via AP)
August 5, 2021, 2:58 am
Crew of tanker said to have thwarted Iranian hijackers by sabotaging the engines
Five or six gunmen tried to take control of Panama-flagged Asphalt Princess off UAE coast, sail it to Iran, UK officials say; they fled after US and Omani warships arrived at scene
By ToI Staff and AP
Illustrative: In this photo provided Friday, Dec. 27, 2019, by the Iranian Army, a warship sails while approaching Iran's southeastern port city of Chahbahar, in the Gulf of Oman (Iranian Army via AP)
August 5, 2021, 12:44 am
US says it suspects ‘Iranian personnnel’ in ‘hijacking’ of ship in Gulf of Oman
Just days after deadly strike on Israel-linked MT Mercer Street, US says it believes hijackers who boarded Panamanian-flagged Asphalt Princess were Iranian
By AFP
A plane belonging to Iran's national air carrier, Iran Air, is parked at Mehrabad airport in Tehran, Iran, on February 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
March 5, 2021, 1:37 pm
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says airplane hijacking attempt thwarted
Iran Air flight makes emergency landing in Isfahan; IRGC says no injuries after authorities disrupt alleged attack
By AP and ToI Staff
An Iranian military speedboat patrols the waters as a tanker prepares to dock at the oil facility on Khark Island, Iran, on March 12, 2017. (Atta Kenare/AFP)
July 15, 2020, 3:42 pm
Group says tanker off UAE sought by US for Iran sanction-busting was ‘hijacked’
Satellite images show Dominica-flagged MT Gulf Sky in Iranian waters; captain confirms seizure to rights group
By Jon Gambrell
Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad in an undated appearance (CBC video screenshot)
February 4, 2020, 9:30 am
Canadian insurance company wins appeal against wife of Palestinian terrorist
Fadia Khalil Mohammad, whose husband attacked an El Al plane, sought to cash in on life insurance policy; firm said it was invalidated because he hid his past
By JTA
In this photo from June 19, 1985, two hijackers of TWA Flight 847 emerge from the plane at Beirut airport. (Nabil Ismail/AFP)
September 23, 2019, 6:52 pm
Lebanese man nabbed in Greece ‘mistaken’ for Flight 847 hijacker, officials say
Sources name man in Greek custody as Mohamed Ali Saleh, say his name is nearly identical to that of alleged Hezbollah member
By Agencies
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