Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: hijack

hijack stories: 9 news summaries

(Newser) - A single hijacker took control of a jet out of Cancun with more than 100 people aboard before forcing it to land in Mexico City and freeing the passengers, CNN reports. Mexican authorities have detained the Bolivian hijacker, who falsely claimed to have a bomb and demanded to see Mexican... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Mexico City • Mexico • Felipe Calderon • Bolivia • hijack • plane hijacking

(Newser) - A driver leaped onto his stolen truck as it pulled out of Georgia parking lot and held on for a 70-mile high-speed cop chase, reports CNN. The driver called police from his cell phone from the truck, and clung to the rig as the thief gunned it. The getaway was... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Atlanta • crime • police • theft • Georgia • speeding • hijack • speed • truckers • trucks • car theft • police chase

 Maoist Train Hijackers 
 End Siege in India 

300 passengers freed

Apr 22, 09 3:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Suspected Maoist rebels who hijacked an India train ended a four-hour standoff with authorities and released 300 passengers, reports CNN. No one was injured. Hundreds of men surrounded and disabled the train as it traveled through a forest in the state of Jharkhand early today. Rebel attacks in the area... More »

MORE ABOUT:
India • hijack • Maoists • rebels • hijacking • Indian elections • train hijacking

UPDATED

 Hijacker of Canadian Jet Surrenders 


Apr 20, 09 3:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - The hijacker of a Canadian jet demanding to fly from Jamaica to Cuba has freed the six crewmembers he was holding and surrendered, reports the BBC. The man, whom authorities described as "mentally challenged," appeared to check in normally last night, then forced his way aboard the CanJet... More »

MORE ABOUT:
crime • Cuba • Jamaica • airline • aircraft • hijack • hijacker • jet • airline passengers • airplane • crew members • CanJet • Montego Bay

Somali Pirates Hijack
Yet Another Cargo Ship

A Hong Kong ship carrying wheat is the latest victim

Nov 18, 08 4:40 PM CST
(Newser) - Pirates off the coast of Africa have struck again, hijacking a Hong Kong cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden, the Financial Times reports. The Delight has 25 crew members and 36,000 tons of wheat, and hijackers were reportedly steering it toward Somalia. It's the latest in a string... More »

MORE ABOUT:
China • Somalia • Africa • Hong Kong • piracy • hijack • pirates

Chinese Say They Foiled 2 Terror Plots

Hijack attempt blocked while earlier raid stopped Olympic attack

Mar 9, 08 1:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - China has thwarted two terror attacks, a top official revealed today, including an attempted plane hijacking on Friday and a January raid that captured and killed terrorists aiming to "sabotage" the Beijing Olympics, reports CNN. Both incidents were linked to regional separatists whose “goal was very clear,”... More »

MORE ABOUT:
China • terrorism • terror plots • 2008 Beijing Olympics • counterterrorism • terrorist • hijack • East Turkestan Islamic Movement • plane hijacking • hijacking

Man Hopes to Auction Bounty of DB Cooper Hijacking

Found wad of ransom money as 8-year-old

Jan 3, 08 3:49 PM CST
(Newser) - The man who found the only tangible evidence of a mysterious hijacker's jump out of an airplane over Washington state in 1971 hopes to sell it at auction, the AP reports. In 1980, 8-year-old Brian Ingram found a wad of $20 bills on the banks of the Columbia River; police... More »

MORE ABOUT:
hijack • D.B. Cooper

FBI Reignites DB Cooper Case

New revelations as feds appeal for help

Jan 2, 08 10:06 AM CST
(Newser) - The FBI is again seeking help solving the intriguing 36-year-old mystery of DB Cooper, last seen parachuting from a hijacked Northwest Airlines jet over southwest Washington with a $200,000 ransom. He appears to have vanished into thin air—if he survived the daring jump. But now the FBI has... More »

MORE ABOUT:
FBI • Mexico City • Northwest Airlines • Washington • hijack • D.B. Cooper

Hijacking Ends Peacefully
in Turkey

Pair protesting US surrender after passengers and pilots flee

Aug 18, 07 9:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two hijackers of a Turkish plane claiming to be protesting US foreign policy surrendered yesterday after nearly all 136 people on board fled from the tarmac unharmed and the rest were released, the BBC reports. The men, believed to be a Turkish national and a Palestinian, tried to force their... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Turkey • terrorism • Muslim • plane • Istanbul • Antalya • Atlas Jet • hijack • Cyprus • al-Qaeda

9 Stories


from our news partners