They refused to bend to the hijackers' demands.
The hijackers intimidated( compelled forced) us to fly to.
We advised the hijackers to surrender themselves to the police.
I' m in direct contact with the hijackers.
In total, the attacks claimed 3, 000 victims, and the lives of the 19 hijackers.
Passengers had rebelled against the hijackers, who had turned the plane toward Washington.
All the hijackers had their time reduced, though they still spent years at hard labor camps in the Urals.
Libyan officials say hijackers who took over a Sudanese plane and forced it to land in Libya have now surrendered.
In 1994, hijackers of an air France jet reportedly considered crashing the aircraft into the Eiffel Tower.
This had frayed following the revelation that 15 of the 19 hijackers who attacked American cities on September 11, 2001 were Saudi nationals.
Earlier, civil aviation officials said hijackers seized a Boeing 737 jetliner shortly after its departure from Bombay late Wednesday night, reportedly with 54 people on board.
The director of the airport in Libya said the hijackers had asked for fuel and flight maps to travel to France.
On the morning of June 15, 1970, K. G. B. agents tackled the would-be hijackers on the tarmac in Leningrad and threw them in jail.
The director also said the hijackers claimed to belong to a faction of the Sudan Liberation Movement rebel group headed by Abdul Wahid al-Nur, who currently lives in Paris.
