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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
skyjack

"to hijack an airplane," 1961, apparently coined in New York "Mirror" headlines, from sky (n.) + second element of hijack (q.v.).

Wiktionary
skyjack

vb. To steal or commandeer (hijack) an airplane, usually by threat of violence to the passengers.

WordNet
skyjack

v. subject an aircraft to air piracy; "the plane was skyjacked to Uzbekistan"

Wikipedia
SkyJack

SkyJack is an unmanned aerial vehicle created by Samy Kamkar which specifically seeks out other Parrot drones and hijacks them through their wireless network, giving the SkyJack pilot the ability to control and view the camera sources of the affected drone.

Usage examples of "skyjack".

I know anything about the NASA Skyjack program is from the newspapers.

I know somebody in photo-lab who managed to get a third microfilm copy of the Skyjack bid.

Industrial Park have had their scientists working like mad, too, on the Skyjack presentations.

The shop had about finished photo-graphing all the Skyjack diagrams and their changes and this was the slack part of the day.

He knew there was talk of layoffs coming unless Skyjack struck pay dirt in Washington.

All he was capable of doing was to save you two from losing your precious Skyjack specs and prices, after getting himself nearly killed and badly beaten.

The Skyjack is exactly that, an electric scissors jack on wheels that resembles an oversized auto jack with a railed platform on top.

He kept a wary eye on Lydia as the Skyjack platform rose slowly toward the ceiling.

Regaining her balance, Lydia stayed crouched as the Skyjack continued its slow descent.

Middle East there will be an attempt to skyjack the Oklahoma City flight.

But instead of lifting a car thirty inches, some Skyjacks can go fifty feet straight up.

The pilot radioed back that the plane was being skyjacked, and right in the middle of the message, he broke off, leaving nothing but dead air and the hiss of static.

If Hel has to be terminated to assure the success of the Septembrists skyjacking then, yes, I shall take some personal satisfaction in that.

It will be their task to make sure they are unmolested in their skyjacking of the Montreal plane.

Younis not only boasted of his role in the Royal Jordanian skyjacking but also his part in the TWA one in which a US Navy diver died.