What is Aircraft hijacking?
'''Aircraft hijacking''' (also known as '''skyjacking''' and '''aircraft piracy''') is the takeover of an [[aircraft]], by a person or group, usually armed. In most cases the pilot is forced to fly according to the orders of the hijackers. Sometimes, the hijackers fly the planes themselves, as occurred in the [[September 11 attacks|September 11, 2001 attacks]]. In one of the cases, the official pilot hijacked the plane, when he diverted his internal [[Air China]] flight to [[Taiwan]].<ref>{{cite news | title = Air China pilot hijacks his own jet to Taiwan | publisher = [[CNN]] | date = 1998-10-28 | url = http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9810/28/hijack.china.taiwan.02/index.html | access-date = 2007-01-25 | archive-date = 2008-03-21 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080321171516/http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9810/28/hijack.china.taiwan.02/index.html | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | author = B. Raman | title = PLANE HIJACKING: IN PERSPECTIVE | publisher = [[South Asia Analysis Group]] | date = 2000-01-02 | url = http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/%5Cpapers2%5Cpaper103.html | access-date = 2007-01-25 | archive-date = 2008-10-13 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081013183113/http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers2/paper103.html | url-status = dead }}</ref> ==Related pages== * [[Violence]] * [[Terrorism]] * [[Extremism]] * [[D. B. Cooper]] * [[Islamic terrorism]] ==References== {{reflist}} {{Transport-stub}} [[Category:Aviation safety|Hijacking]] [[Category:Types of crime]] [[Category:Terrorist attacks]]