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An airliner is hijacked by its pilot who threatens to destroy it unless a passenger confesses to a crime. The passenger is a judge who allegedly covered up for a pedophile who tortured and killed the pilot's daughter. A woman FBI agent comes on board during a refuelling and the two negotiate in the air. By the author of Medusa's Child.
2) 97 minutes
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
A hijacked 767 has 97 minutes of fuel left before it crashes, potentially killing thousands. Government agents monitoring the threat must determine whether they can trust an undercover agent to avert the crash and save the innocents on board.
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Kennedy Stern volume 5
Publisher
Firstfruits Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Facing doubts and terror at forty thousand feet. It's been another grueling semester at Harvard, and Kennedy can hardly wait to take a break from her premed studies for some much-needed rest and relaxation at her roommate's homestead in rural Alaska. Unfortunately, Kennedy's great arctic adventure might come to a crashing halt before it even begins."--Back cover.
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
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"The definitive account of one of the greatest Special Forces missions ever, the Raid on Entebbe, by acclaimed military historian Saul David"--Book jacket.
On June 27, 1976, a group of Arab and German terrorists hijacked Air France flight 139 en route from Tel Aviv to Paris. The plane was diverted to Entebbe Airport in Uganda, where the terrorists demanded the release of 53 "freedom fighters" in Israeli, Kenyan, and European jails in return for the...
6) Lockout
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Wildblue Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
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 sense nothing, the flight displays still showing them on course to New York. But with puzzled passengers reporting stars on the wrong side and growing alarm over the sudden failure of all their radios - and when armed fighters...
8) Hijacked
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Special Agent Ross's plans to reconcile with his ex-fiance are ruined when she boards a private jet that is targeted by hijackers working for the same crime lord he is chasing. With no time to inform his team, Ross wriggles his way aboard the aircraft and risks it all to save the love of his life. An adrenaline fueled action packed film that puts the fear back in flying!
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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"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"--
10) 97 minutes
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
A hijacked 767 has 97 minutes of fuel left before it crashes, potentially killing thousands. Government agents monitoring the threat must determine whether they can trust an undercover agent to avert the crash and save the innocents on board.
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Series
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Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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"On November 24, 1971, a man boarded a passenger plane in Portland, Oregon. Later, he would become known as D. B. Cooper. But that wasn't his real name, and he was no ordinary passenger. He hijacked the plane, demanded $200,000, and parachuted out of the plane with the money. He was never seen again. Who was D. B. Cooper, and what happened to him? Explore the theories behind this crime and why it has become one of history's greatest mysteries"--
12) Turbulence
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
©1997
Description
A 747 heading from New York to L.A. is taken over by a seductive psychopathic serial killer, and the only one who can stop him is a beautiful young flight attendant.
13) Crash landing
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
On board a private flight, a billionaire's daughter and her friends experience a hellish ordeal when their flight is hijacked by a team of terrorists. A deadly standoff at 30,000 feet begins.
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Series
Unsolved case files volume no. 001
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
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."--Provided by publisher.
15) Air Force One
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
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."
16) The Delta Force
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000
Description
After a fanatic band of ruthless terrorists hijack a commercial jetliner, a small anti-terrorist squad strikes with awesome force.
17) I am DB Cooper
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
A modern day treasure hunt to uncover truths about the only unsolved hijacking in US history.
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