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
Following Lufthansa Pilot Schumann's death, Derry Pearce, president of the International Federation of Airline Pilots Association, threatened a worldwide two-day pilots' strike unless the U.N. finally acted against skyjacking.
From Time Magazine Archive
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