The world's best known aircraft hijacks (1990-2014)

8-March2014

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 traced seven hours after it went missing as hijacking becomes more likely

February 17, 2014

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 702

June 29, 2012

Tianjin Airlines Flight GS7554

April 2011

Alitalia Flight 329

January 2011

unsuccesful Attempt of Turkish Airlines Flight 1754

Landed in Istanbul Atatürk International Airport

60 passenger + 7 crew members

2009

AeroMéxico Flight 576Boeing 737-800

CanJet Flight 918, Boeing 737-800

2008:

Sun Air Boeing 737

Eagle Airways Flight 2279

2007

Atlasjet MD-80

Air West Boeing 737

2006

Turkish Airlines Flight 1476

11 September 2001

4 planes Hijacked by by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists

American Airlines Flight 11 – crash to the North of World trade center complex towers

United Airlines Flight 175 - crash to the South of World trade center complex towers

American Airlines Flight 77- crashed into the Pentagon

United Airlines Flight 93 -crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.

3,000 people died in the attacks, including the 227 civilians and 19 hijackers

15 March 2001

Vnukovo Airlines Tu-154

11 November 2000

Vnukovo Airlines Tu-154

14-October 2000

Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight 115

18 August 2000

VASP Boeing 737-2A1

By 2000

Philippine Airlines Flight 812

Ariana Afghan Airlines Boeing 727

24-Dec-1999

Indian Airlines Flight 814

No of passengers :192

Hijacked by 3 terrorists.

1999

All Nippon Airways Flight 61

1998

PIA Flight 544

1997

Air Malta Flight 830 :2 Turkish men hijacked

1996

Ethiopian Airlines flight 961

crashed in the Indian Ocean

125 people died 50 passengers survived

Hemus Air Tu-154 : hijacked by the Palestinian Nadir Abdalla

1995

Kish Air flight 707

Russian cargo jet

1994

FedEx Flight 705

24 December 1994

Air France Flight 8969

by the Armed Islamic Group (GIA)

Landed at Houari Boumedienne Airport, Algiers, Algeria

20-Feb-1993

Russian Airliner

Landed at Stockholm Airport

No of passengers :47

1993

Indian Airlines

11- February 1993

Lufthansa Flight 592

26 march 1991

Singapore Airlines Flight 117

2 October 1990

Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301