hijacking of aircraft

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.

Presents the unsolved case of a man, known as D.B. Cooper, who hijacked Northwest Airlines flight 305 on November 24, 1971, and extorted the airline out of $200,000.

Looks at the hijacking of a plane in 1972 in which D.B. Cooper jumped out of an airplane with $200,000 which has never been recovered and he has never been found.

Five teenagers from the elite Hartwell Academy are on their way back to New York from an end-of-summer camping trip in Idaho when they realize that something has gone wrong; one of them has become violently ill, and their private plane has apparently been hijacked and is headed in the wrong direction--and even if they can somehow break into the cockpit and manage to overpower the hijacker, they have no idea how to fly the plane, much less land it.

Tender Branson, the last surviving member of a death cult, recounts his life story as he flies all alone in an airplane that is set to crash.

Tuck Durante, a shipraider, and Lana Gray, a curator, must work together to try to rescue a space capsule hijacked by nightmarish creatures who kill with a scream.

This is a fictionalized story based on the amazing real life experiences of Miriam Moss, a fifteen year old English school girl who was held hostage on a plane hijacked by the Palestinian Liberation Front in 1970.

Learn about the only unsolved case of air piracy in the United States.

The suspicious death of Lowell Hawthorne's CIA agent father, and the discovery of a cache of documents and videos, spurs Lowell to join forces with Samantha to seek out the complete truth about the 1987 hijacking of Air France 64, an incident in which his mother died, and Samantha, then a child, survived.