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
It is the only unsolved skyjacking in American history.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 18, 2023
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 week's end the Palestinian Liberation Organization ousted the P.F.L.P. from membership on the grounds that the skyjacking had damaged the Palestinian cause.
From Time Magazine Archive
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