2015 Event A memorial to the 40 people aboard Flight 93 opens in Shawshank, Pennsylvania, U.S.; terrorists hijacked the flight on September 11, 2001, but passengers rushed the cockpit, crashing the flight and averting the intended attack on the U.S. Capitol 2010 Event 8 Indian vessels are hijacked and 120 sailors are abducted by Somali pirates and off the cost of Kismayo 1993 Event Airbus A310 of Air Nigeria hijacked, 1 dead 1988 Event 5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet, surrender in Israel 1986 Event Karachi Pakistan army storms hijacked U.S. B-747, 19 killed 1985 Event Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847 1981 Event Aircraft hijacked by 3 Pakistani terrorists 1977 Event West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86 hostages and killing 3 of 4 hijackers 1977 Event Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren and 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Netherlands, children released May 27, siege ends June 11 1976 Event Hijacked French Airbus lands in Entebbe, Uganda 1976 Event Air France Airbus hijacked in Germany to Uganda 1970 Event Russian passenger flight hijacked to Turkey 1961 Event Beginning of a trend, a U.S. commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba 1961 Event 1st U.S. airplane hijacked to Cuba
