What is "hijacking"

Usage examples of "hijacking".

Nichols stayed in Cebu City from late November until January 16, 1995 - the same period when Yousef was in Manila planning the plot against the pope, the Bojinka airline bombings, and the suicide hijackings.

Khallad adds that the training involved using flight simulator com- puter games, viewing movies that featured hijackings, and reading flight schedules to determine which flights would be in the air at the same time in different parts of the world.

Coast Guard and hijacking gangs, so by the later twenties organized crime in Detroit forced most independent rumrunners out of business.

She went on to describe airplane hijackings where people who had been seized and abused developed friendly feelings for their attackers.

The Heloise is being boarded by thieves — the dancers have stolen the catseye chrysoberyls and are hijacking Andina's ship — with you in it.

We didn't know where between the airport and Captiva Island the hijacking took place.

A different virus is busy hijacking people's bank accounts, sending ten percent of their assets to the previous victim, then mailing itself to everyone in the current mark's address book: a self- propelled pyramid scheme in action.

He thought he had a sure finger on the pulse of his chosen world, but he hadn't heard anything about the NATO hijacking.

The Brennan-monster glanced back at the flare gun, flickeringly, then apparently abandoned the idea of hijacking the dustboat.

After hijacking a smuggler ship at the fuel station of Ergo, Katarn travels to the Executor, where he stows away on a cargo ferry to the Arc Hammer.

Drucker hoped it wouldn't tempt some ambitious band of holdouts into trying a hijacking.

The older bosses, including Angelo and Pudge, had held the line for years, content to earn their money off what they knew best and felt were the most secure forms of crime--loan sharking, extortion, prostitution, hijacking and gambling.

Police Chief Cornell, had, through his crass, macho zeal, been on the verge of hijacking what was clearly a cathartic media event and turning it into a police matter.

With the results still incomplete, the score stood at 2 murders, 76 rapes, 332 aggravated assaults, 13 arsons, 20 kidnappings-mostly of teen-aged girls-56 robberies with violence, uncounted cases of public drunkenness and disorderly conduct, and several thousand lesser misdemeanors such as child abuse, micturating on and throwing bottles at pedes­trians from hotel windows, driving stolen buses off bridges, hijacking an airliner, pulling down statues in public parks, defilement of churches and cemeteries, and destruction, theft, burning, and looting of private property valued at $33 million.

The hijacking had been exactly the sort of exploit Geoffrey Niles dreamed about.