<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_8969" id="mwAWc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Air France Flight 8969">Air France Flight 8969</a> is hijacked on the ground at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houari_Boumediene_Airport" id="mwAWg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Houari Boumediene Airport">Houari Boumediene Airport</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiers" id="mwAWk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Algiers">Algiers</a>, Algeria. Over the course of three days three passengers are killed, as are all four terrorists.<sup about="#mwt194" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-36"}}' id="cite_ref-36" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_24#cite_note-36" id="mwAWo" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 36;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAWs">[36]</span></a></sup>
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