Sentence examples for hijacking of two from inspiring English sources

Since the hijacking of two planes that left Logan on Tuesday and crashed into the World Trade Center, what had been an inside-politics story, a spark for occasional tabloid scandal, has become far graver.

The pirates, who were detained in 2008 following the hijacking of two ships off the coast of Somalia, will receive between 2000 and 5000 euros ($2,500 and $6,150) each.

I refer to the recent hijacking of two aircraft and a passenger vessel.

The airlines are trying to fill more seats after the hijacking of four jetliners made travelers nervous.

After the hijacking of four airliners on Sept. 11, "he and administrator Jane Garvey mutually agreed that he would look elsewhere," Mr. Lunner said.

OF ALL the businesses to be sent reeling by the co-ordinated hijacking of four passenger airliners for suicide attacks in America, the worst affected will surely be the travel industry.

In 2001 Young responded to the September 11 attacks with "Let's Roll," a song honouring passengers' efforts to foil the hijacking of one of the planes (Flight 93) used in the attack.

Nine months after the fallout of Sept. 11, the families directly affected by the hijacking of four American planes on one day are judiciously revealing the horror that their nightmare loss continues to be.

From the bombing of a Jerusalem supermarket in 1969 to the simultaneous hijacking of three Western airliners to Amman, Jordan, in September 1970, the Front stayed in the news with high-profile attacks that other Palestinian groups never seemed able to match.

Examples of this include, in 1970, the hijacking of three aircraft — one Swiss, one British, and one American — which were all taken to Amman; the 1972 murder of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics; the seizure in 1973 of the Saudi Embassy in Khartoum, and the murder there of two Americans and a Belgian diplomat; and the takeover of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro, in 1985.

The coordinated plot began with the hijacking of four planes and ultimately ended with the deaths of nearly 3,000 people in New York, the Washington, D.C.-area and Pennsylvania.