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skyjacking

[skahy-jak-ing] / ˈskaɪˌdʒæk ɪŋ /


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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

Yes, she did, because while Himmelsbach was a landmark in the only unsolved skyjacking in American history, that case was just a footnote in Himmelsbach’s story.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2022

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

In Raspe's cell, investigators also found a tiny radio; with it, Raspe probably followed the course of the skyjacking and learned of the rescue at Mogadishu.

From Time Magazine Archive