The word 'hijacked' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to unlawfully seize or take control of something or someone, especially a vehicle or plane. Example: The flight was hijacked by a group of armed individuals, who diverted the plane to a different destination.
By 1933, Adams was writing in the New York Times of the way the American dream had been hijacked: "Throughout our history, the pure gold of this vision has been heavily alloyed with the dross of materialistic aims.
What began as a peaceful uprising and then became local self-defence has been hijacked.
Iran had democratic elections only to be hijacked by the CIA, British intelligence and the oil companies.
The protests have waned both in Nigeria and abroad, but those gathered seemed re-energised as they sought to draw attention back to a campaign that has been repeatedly hijacked in the runup to presidential elections in February.
Some even claimed that the movement had been hijacked by neo-Nazis.
Gonzales says she reads everything about what may have happened to the plane: theories it was hijacked, or laden with lithium-ion batteries that exploded, or otherwise succumbed to foul play.
Maybe the queen of country can provide some insight into how the folk music of America has been hijacked.
"Indonesia had a free election in 1955 until it was hijacked by Sukarno.
When we refuse to cooperate with the system that has hijacked our university, we make a step towards reclaiming and recreating the university.
On Thursday Perry laid into Davis personally, saying she had hijacked the democratic process and had failed to "learn from her mistakes" as a single teenage mother.
The Kuwaiti imam had testified during a three-week New York trial that he answered bin Laden's request in the hours after the attacks to speak on the widely circulated videos used to recruit new followers willing to go on suicide missions like the 19 who hijacked four planes on September 11 , 2001
