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    Air France Flight 8969 was an Air France flight that was hijacked on 24 December 1994 by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria (GIA) at Houari Boumediene...
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    from the air Uganda portal France portal Israel portal Aviation portal Air France Flight 8969 – a similar hijacking and raid on another Air France airliner...
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  • flight as a test run for the Bojinka plot. One passenger died. The Bojinka plot was discovered before it could be carried out. Air France Flight 8969...
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    GIGN (category 1973 establishments in France)
    worldwide prominence after its operatives successfully stormed Air France Flight 8969, which had been hijacked by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria at...
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  • DC-4-fleet". www.rzjets.net. "Modern Air Convair CV-990A in Air France colours on stand at London Heathrow (photo)". Flight International: 656. 27 April 1967...
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  • the man was taken into custody upon arrival. December 24, 1994: Air France Flight 8969 was hijacked from Algiers by four GIA hijackers planning to crash...
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    planning the hijacking of the aircraft. Colombian conflict Air France Flight 8969 Indian Airlines Flight 814 Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Fokker 50...
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    fraud. All Nippon Airways Flight 61 Air France Flight 8969, another 1994 hijack which was also foiled. British Airways Flight 2069 "Federal Express Corporation...
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  • board. TWA Flight 847, a Boeing 727-231, was hijacked shortly after takeoff on June 14, 1985. One person was killed. Air France Flight 8969 was hijacked...
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    Denis Favier (category Articles needing translation from French Wikipedia)
    Favier (born May 18, 1959) is a French officer known for commanding the mission to remove hijackers from Air France Flight 8969. From 2013 to 2016, he was...
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  • 2015 Kandahar Airport attack Air France Flight 8969 Singapore Airlines Flight 117 Avianca Flight 9463 Air India Flight 182 Dawson's Field hijackings...
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  • Texas. In December 1994, the SAS were deployed as observers when Air France Flight 8969 was hijacked by GIA terrorists, the crisis was eventually resolved...
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  • The Assault (2010 film) (category Air France–KLM)
    Assault (French: L'Assaut) is a 2010 French action thriller film directed by Julien Leclercq, based on the 1994 hijacking of Air France Flight 8969 by Algerian...
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    the 2018 film Suspiria. Operation Entebbe List of hostage crises Air France Flight 8969 Portals:  Aviation  Transport  Somalia  Germany  Brazil  History...
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  • produced by Cineflix that recounts air crashes, near-crashes, fires, hijackings, bombings, and other mainly flight-related disasters and crises. It reveals...
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    rest of East Asia were not immune either. On December 26, 1994, Air France Flight 8969 with 172 passengers and crew was hijacked after leaving Algiers...
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    terrorist attacks List of terrorist incidents in France 1996 Paris RER bombing Air France Flight 8969 "Rachid Ramda jugé pour l'ultime procès des attentats...
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  • Papeete, French Polynesia. No fatalities reported. 24 December 1994 Air France Flight 8969, an Airbus A300B2-1C (registration F-GBEC) was hijacked at Houari...
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  • Hour of Flight 11" was released on a separate DVD. All other episodes have not been released on DVD. Television portal Mayday (also known as Air Crash Investigation...
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    conservatism. In 1994, Air France Flight 8969 was hijacked by terrorists; they were captured. In 2012, a Muslim radical shot three French soldiers and four...
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    portal Aviation portal 1990s portal Air France Flight 8969 – similar incident and resolution in 1994 Indian Airlines Flight 814 – similar incident in 1999...
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    State group claims responsibility for deadly Moscow concert hall attack". France 24. 22 March 2024. Archived from the original on 22 March 2024. Retrieved...
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    Taser 7 and Pepper Spray. France portal Air France Flight 8969 Airborne Units of the National Gendarmerie Law enforcement in France Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez—cult...
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    GIA's tactics." Djafar was killed by French security forces February 26, 1994 during the raid on Air France flight 8969. Cherif Gousmi, aka Abu Abdallah Ahmed...
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    crash of AirAsia Flight 8501, ..." March 27, 2014, The New Zealand Herald, Flight MH370: Terrorism expert backs theory of pilot suicide flight Archived...
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    attacks was 1971. Outside France, the terrorist attack with the most French victims was the 19 September 1989 bombing of UTA Flight 772 over Niger, in which...
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    Algerian Civil War (category Articles with French-language sources (fr))
    extended the GIA's attacks on civilians to French soil, beginning with the hijacking of Air France Flight 8969 at the end of December 1994 and continuing...
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    Bihar in India The Assault (2010) – French action thriller film based on the 1994 hijacking of Air France Flight 8969 by Algerian Islamic fundamentalist...
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    weapons components, and he also worked on an exclusive report on the Air France Flight 8969 hijacking. His series on deficient airport security resulted in...
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    destroyed in coalition bombing of Mosul Airport. 24 December 1994: Air France Flight 8969 was hijacked at Houari Boumedienne Airport in Algiers, by four terrorists...
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