skyjacking
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Other senior officials opted to leave, including the bureau’s top fraud expert, cryptanalyst and skyjacking expert, and the head of its Crime Information Center.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2025
But he found nothing even slightly romantic or daring about his most famous case, the Cooper skyjacking.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2022
Daniel Riley: Southern California, the seventies, stewardesses, sisters, skyjacking.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2017
Cooper Geoffrey Gray • New York • May 1996 Looking for closure in the only unsolved skyjacking case in history.
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2013
At Beirut International Airport, the last thing officials wanted was a skyjacking crisis on their hands, and so they blocked the airport runway with buses and other obstacles.
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