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Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Terrorists have seized Air Force One thirty thousand feet in the air with the President, his family, and more than fifty other people on board. The terrorists threaten to execute a hostage every 30 minutes if their demands are not met. The official word from Washington is "no negotiations".
Author
Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
From the author of Man Booker Prize-winning Schindler's Ark, Palestinian terrorists hijack a flight from New York bound for Frankfurt that holds an unusual group of passengers: a troupe of dancers from the aboriginal Australian Barramatjara tribe. The hijackers single out Frank McCloud, the troupe's Caucasian manager, as an 'Exploiter of Landless People' and attempt to persuade the dancers to join their cause. Whose side will they take? What do the...
5) Flight 714
Author
Series
Publisher
Little Brown
Pub. Date
c1975
Language
English
Description
A chance meeting with an old friend causes Tintin, Captain Haddock, and Professor Calculus to be passengers on an airplane that is hijacked.
6) Lockout
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A passenger plane is electronically hijacked -- and may be aimed at a target that could kill millions: "A wild ride through the night sky." -- Capt. "Sully" Sullenberger, #1 New York Times -bestselling author Over the Atlantic in the dark of night, the electronic brain of Pangia Airlines Flight 10 quietly and without warning disconnects all the cockpit controls and reverses course on its own. The crew of the huge Airbus 330 at first senses nothing,...
Author
Series
Unsolved case files volume 001
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A minute-by-minute account of the only unsolved airplane hijacking in the United States uses reproductions of FBI files and investigation photographs to chronicle the events surrounding an unidentified extortionist's 1971 hijacking and disappearance."--
9) United 93
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Presents a fact-based story about the 40 passengers and crewmembers aboard San Francisco-bound flight United 93 on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Intercuts mostly real-time scenes of the flight and hijacking with the struggles of air-traffic controllers and U.S. military personnel to comprehend and deal with the unprecedented attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Shows how the passengers and crew find out about the tragic attacks through...
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