Questions tagged [hijack]
Aircraft hijacking (also known as aircraft piracy, especially within the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States, and informally as skyjacking) is the unlawful seizure of an aircraft by an individual or a group. In most cases, the pilot is forced to fly according to the orders of the hijackers.
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Has any manned aircraft been hijacked electronically?
Has anyone ever taken control of a manned aircraft from the pilot by exploiting security vulnerabilities in the electronics system?
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Could an airliner pilot successfully exit alone from a controlled ocean ditching?
MH370's 777 disappeared into the Indian Ocean, the investigation positing a possibility of a pilot self-hijacking the plane and flying until resource exhaustion, then gliding into a "controlled&...
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Are flights being shown as "hijacked" on airport departure screens in case they are? [closed]
In the movie The Net a flight appears as "hijacked" on a departure/arrival screen. Would these screens really show an airliner as hijacked when they are, and did this ever happen?
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In the US, will the tower likely think my aircraft has been hijacked if I taxi with the flaps down?
In the US, will the tower likely think my aircraft has been hijacked if I taxi with the flaps down?
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Why are flaps retracted when an aircraft is parked on ground?
https://fsims.faa.gov/wdocs/...
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D.B Cooper incident - What caused the tail to move after a jump?
In the Wiki page on "D.B Cooper", the presumed moment he jumped out of the aircraft is described:
At approximately 8:13 p.m., the aircraft's tail section sustained a sudden upward movement, ...
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Did the FAA order the installation of "Cooper vanes?"
On November 24, 1971, a man hijacked a Boeing 727 and parachuted away, never to be found.
According to Wikipedia, this prompted (together with 2 other hijackings) the installation of "Cooper vanes" ...
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Why would Air France fly to Algeria when it had a civil war?
I was reading about the Polaris Award that was awarded to the pilots of Air France Flight 8969:
Algeria was in a state of civil war at the time of the hijacking. Aircraft flying to Algiers faced ...
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Is it legal to shoot down hijacked passenger aircraft in some countries? [closed]
Are there countries which post-9/11 have adopted legislation allowing the shoot-down of passenger aircraft under any circumstances ?
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Why shoot down a passenger plane without knowing it will crash? [closed]
Flights threatened by a passenger and flights with lost coms and even flights in technical difficulty without criminal intent and not posing a security threat are sometimes intercepted and escorted by ...
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What is the ATC protocol for hijackings? [closed]
If a commercial aircraft is successfully hijacked, by a competent pilot / pilots, and they make contact with ATC for regular requests (i.e. weather updates, flight path information or clearing air ...
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Is there any way to stop a pilot from crashing an airliner? [closed]
If a pilot decides to crash an airliner, a la Germanwings or Egyptair, could he be stopped?
In those cases the offending pilot waited until he was alone in the cockpit to act. Thus many airlines ...
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Are jet aircraft still at risk of hijacking by people wielding melee weapons? [closed]
Are jet aircraft still at risk of hijacking by people wielding melee weapons (as opposed to explosives)?
I thought that aircraft were designed post-9/11 such that passengers can't enter the cockpit, ...
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What prevents a passenger from hijacking a private jet?
I was reading another question on this site when I saw this answer.
As you can see in the photo I copied below, this private jet has no cockpit door. On commercial aircraft the bullet-proof cockpit ...
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