Publisher says mystery hijacker was ex-paratrooper from Michigan DB Cooper sleuth claims hijacker was CIA operative, FBI is 'flat-out lying' about case DB Cooper sleuth insists letter written by mysterious hijacker linked to San Diego man Despite the claims of the publishing company, the FBI has never ruled out the possibility that the hijacker was killed in the jump -- which took place during a rainstorm at night, over rough, wooded terrain.
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They, too, were eventually released, and the hijacker was arrested.
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There was also some confusion over the identity of the hijacker.
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Taking a selfie with a hijacker was the most 2016 thing.
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Conflicting theories emerged about the motives of the hijacker, an Egyptian.
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Reached by telephone, Gammal told Reuters that the hijacker seemed "abnormal".
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But he shouldn't be going to try to hijack the hijacker.
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Footage later published online shows the hijacker passing through security unhindered.
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Cypriot state media reported that the hijacker had demanded asylum in Cyprus.
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Eygptian state media had earlier identified the hijacker as a different man.
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And the alleged hijacker, who officials described as disturbed, was taken into custody.
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The hijacker&aposs clothing and footwear were also unsuitable for a rough landing.
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BIN LADEN&aposS SON MARRIES 9/11 LEAD HIJACKER&aposS DAUGHTER, REPORT SAYS
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The hijacker asked police to back away from the aircraft, the broadcaster said.
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It was a tense, hours-long event as authorities negotiated with the hijacker.
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Ben Innes from #Aberdeen poses for a picture with #EgyptAir #MS181 hijacker. pic.twitter.
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Most important, a hijacker can't easily steal your codes from an authenticator app.
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That, at least, is how the hijacker is being reportedly described by Egyptian officials.
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You know, you look at Wanda Sykes who called Rush Limbaugh the 20th hijacker.
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Egypt's aviation minister would not confirm the nationality of the hijacker or his demands.
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A hostage situation ensued, but it has now ended with the hijacker in custody.
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In 2006 Palestinian–Swedish filmmaker Lina Makboul made a documentary called Leila Khaled: Hijacker.
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CNN: So why don't we know what happened to his co-hijacker Cathy Kerkow?
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They land in Saigon and the captain went back and basically tackled this hijacker.
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Above, the suspected hijacker left the plane after the passengers and crew were out.
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That's when it can be hijacked and forced to stream whatever the hijacker wants.
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Oftentimes when there was violence, it wasn't a hijacker deciding to execute a passenger.
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A short time later, EgyptAir announced on Twitter that the alleged hijacker had been apprehended.
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Many investigators have come forward with their theories for who the infamous hijacker may be.
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Cyprus' foreign ministry on Tuesday identified the hijacker as Seif Eldin Mustafa in a tweet.
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The hijacker was reportedly never married and there were no past mentions of his children.
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YouTube approves a clean ad submitted by a clean account set up by the hijacker.
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"Everyone uses them," someone who claimed to be a SIM hijacker told Motherboard last year.
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Dr. Ibrahim Samaha, an Egyptian university professor, was wrongfully identified in media reports as the hijacker.
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Vaughn knew the ex-cop was armed and Vaughn had him shoot the hijacker to death.
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"There were no real, tangible demands by the hijacker," said Sherif Fathy, Egypt's civil aviation minister.
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Mr. Qahtani, a Saudi, is believed to have been the intended 20th hijacker in the Sept.
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All 143 passengers were evacuated before commandos took out the hijacker and no injuries were reported.
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" There's a great Time magazine piece from 1968 called "What to do if the hijacker comes.
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After authorities negotiated with the alleged hijacker, most of the passengers were freed, EgyptAir said on Facebook.
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He is married to the daughter of lead 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta, according to the department.
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"Everyone uses them," someone who claimed to be a SIM hijacker told me in a recent chat.
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In May, a Michigan publisher said the hijacker was former military paratrooper and intelligence operative Walter R. Reca.
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Local media reported the unidentified hijacker was armed with a plastic gun but there was no official confirmation.
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In comments to journalists at the scene, Witzel celebrated the outcome but lamented the death of the hijacker.
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Usama bin Laden's son, Hamza bin Laden, reportedly married the daughter of the lead hijacker of the Sept.
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Ismail told reporters that authorities would question the hijacker to ascertain his true motives, which remained a mystery.
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Innes also thought he could get a good look and see if the hijacker actually had a bomb.
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The drama ended yesterday with the release of all the passengers and crew and the hijacker being arrested.
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Cyprus' foreign ministry said that during negotiations with the alleged hijacker, he appeared to be "unstable," Reuters reported.
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Many passengers on flight MS229 were released following negotiations with the hijacker, who has not yet been officially named.
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The hijacker was "unstable," Homer Mavrommatis, director of the Cyprus Ministry of Foreign Affairs Crisis Management Center, told CNN.
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For the airbus seizure event, teams board the plane, shoot the hijacker, remove explosives, and carry victims to safety.
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In August 2018, it emerged bin Laden had married the daughter of the key 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta.
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"I didn't know how to tell her that I had already done a selfie with the hijacker," Innes said.
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Egypt time, EgyptAir tweeted negotiations with a hijacker resulted in the release of all passengers except crew and four foreigners.
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Osama Bin Laden, the "underwear bomber," the 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta, to name just a few, came from money.
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The hijacker, it seems, used these scant details to infer he worked at Earthlink, and had a family worth threatening.
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The alleged hijacker of an EgyptAir plane has since been arrested after hours of tense negotiations, according to Cypriot police.
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According to an earlier report by Reuters, quoting Cyprus Broadcasting, the alleged hijacker was thought to be strapped with explosives.
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The latest incident raised renewed questions over airport security, though it was not clear whether the hijacker was even armed.
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In the event, all 22014 passengers and crew were eventually released unharmed and the hijacker eventually surrendered to Cypriot authorities.
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The suspected hijacker, who surrendered and was arrested, told the pilot that he had explosives and threatened to detonate them.
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Recently, the PFLP sent its most famous member, the first woman hijacker in history, Leila Khaled, on speaking tours worldwide.
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The operation to stop the hijacker and rescue the crew members who were taken hostage took eight minutes, authorities said.
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The case had developed some internet lore around it: rumors of Chandler really being the Zodiac Killer or hijacker D.B. Cooper.
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Rick Sherwood, 70, of Wheatfield, believes the hijacker is a former military pilot named Robert Rackstraw, The Indianapolis Star reported Friday.
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Here's the image (and his mom is right): Ben Innes from #Aberdeen poses for a picture with #EgyptAir #MS181 hijacker. pic.twitter.
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CNN: If I traveled to Cuba today, would I see any remnants of that time when Cuba was a hijacker destination?
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The other four defendants, including "20th hijacker" Ramzi bin al-Shibh, stand accused of helping the hijackers train, plan, and finance.
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Gammal told Reuters that the hijacker seemed "abnormal" but that he was obligated to treat him as a legitimate security threat.
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The incident ended relatively peacefully Tuesday when the plane's crew and passengers left the aircraft and authorities took the hijacker into custody.
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I was just kneeling there at the front door while the hijacker made his demands and wondering if they would be met.
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To imply, as Anton did, that Barack Obama, for all his shortcomings, was Ziad Jarrah, Flight 93's lead hijacker, is vile.
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The hijacker who seized the Egyptian airliner and forced it to land in Cyprus has been detained, Cypriot government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides said.
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But prosecutors said he played a central role in suicide hijacker Mohammed Atta's group by running the financial affairs of some cell members.
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Egyptian state media agency MENA initially reported the hijacker was an Egyptian national named Ibrahim Samaha, but gave no other details about him.
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PUBLISHER SAYS MYSTERY HIJACKER WAS EX-PARATROOPER FROM MICHIGAN Ameera Stokes was charged with first-degree murder in connection with her father's death.
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A Libyan television channel reported it had spoken by phone with a hijacker who described himself as head of a pro-Gaddafi party.
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The earlier hijacking was on a domestic flight within Egypt, however, and the hijacker was apprehended after the plane was forced to land.
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But afterward another hijacker, Youssef Magid al-Molqi, shot Klinghoffer twice and ordered that his body and wheelchair be thrown into the sea.
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That was the fear, that some hijacker would be desperate enough to crash a plane into a populated area or a nuclear reactor.
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The hijacker, Seif Eldin Mustafa, diverted the plane to Cyprus, where he held it for several hours under the threat of a suicide belt.
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As the hijacking ended, a visibly delighted Witzel arrived by helicopter and bounded across the bridge to hug police involved in killing the hijacker.
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The lead 9/11 hijacker, Mohamed Atta, was the son of an Egyptian lawyer and was studying for a doctorate from a German university.
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Related: British Man Posed for Photo with EgyptAir Hijacker While Still on Plane Greece deployed aircraft and a frigate to search for the missing plane.
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The clip, filmed by Dutch passenger Huub Helthuis, shows two attendants chatting with the hijacker, Seif Eldin Mustafa, before calling Ben Innes to come over.
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Cypriot Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides said the hijacker had threatened to blow himself up and demanded that the aircraft be refueled and head to Istanbul.
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Zammar is believed to have recruited some of the perpetrators of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States, including hijacker Mohammed Atta.
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To make it even more annoying, in some cases the hijacker(s) switched between accounts, so that the moderator couldn't block them all in time.
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In 2009, Wanda Sykes drew criticism for a joke about Rush Limbaugh being too stoned on Oxycontin to show up as the 20th 9/11 hijacker.
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The hijacker then took that trademark to Amazon and registered it, giving him the power to kick Harris off his own listings and commandeer his name.
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The hijacker then ordered the plane to fly to Mexico, but near the Washington-Oregon border he jumped and was never seen or heard from again.
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The suspected hijacker of an EgyptAir airliner surrendered to authorities at Larnaca airport in Cyprus on Tuesday, according to local officials, with all passengers released unharmed.
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In such a case, wouldn't the hijacker have access to more information than the misleading details on the PSN account, such as an old email address?
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In March, a hijacker wearing a fake explosives vest diverted an EgyptAir domestic flight to Cyprus, but a standoff ended with his arrest and no injuries.
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The captain then literally picked up this hijacker and took his body to the rear exit of the plane and threw the corpse onto the tarmac.
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A team of private investigators who spent years trying to crack the D.B. Cooper case claimed Thursday they decoded a letter from the hijacker revealing his identity.
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For the most part, airline crews cooperated with the hijacker, and the story — while terrifying for those affected -- had a relatively happy ending, with no one harmed.
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At a news conference on Thursday, Michigan publisher Principia Media said the hijacker, known as D.B. Cooper, was former military paratrooper and intelligence operative Walter R. Reca.
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Citing security sources, Cypriot state media reported that the motives of the hijacker appeared personal, and had asked to contact his ex wife, who lives in Cyprus.
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Egyptian foreign ministry officials were also quoted as saying that the hijacker was an "idiot" rather than a terrorist, but this was later denied by the ministry.
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TIME deemed the lead characters to be so unappealing that it compared the film to a hypothetical one about a toxic waste-dumper and a terrorist hijacker.
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There was a hijacker named Anthony Bryant who wrote a memoir after spending about 11 and a half years in prison in Cuba for taking a plane.
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However, a grand jury indicted the hijacker in absentia for violating the Hobbs Act, another federal statute aimed to prevent extortion that carried no statute of limitations.
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They uncovered one page for "Mohammed Atta" with an iconic photo of one of the al-Qaida adherents, who was a hijacker in the September 11 attacks.
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The Boeing 737-800 made an emergency landing in the southern port of Chittagong where commandos stormed the plane and shot the would-be hijacker, officials said.
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He contends that they were taking photos with him in order to sneak them to authorities:Qaddah, the last person on the plane with the hijacker and the pilot pictured jumping out of a cockpit window, says that the crew was not laughing at the hijacker or making light of the situation but tricking Mustafa so they could relay his appearance and his device to Egyptian and Cypriot authorities.
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Hans Moreno, a passenger on the bus, told Globo News the hijacker had a pistol and a knife, and never explained to passengers the reasons for his actions.
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An Indiana Army vet says he used his code-breaking skills to crack a nearly 47-year-old mystery -- the identity of the infamous airline hijacker D.B. Cooper.
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Seif Eldin Mustafa, the hijacker who forcibly redirected EgyptAir Flight 181 to land in Larnaca, Cyprus, admitted his crimes to Cypriot investigators during a court appearance on Wednesday.
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The hijacker, identified by Cyprus's state media as Seif Eldin Mustafa, was arrested at around 7:45 am US Eastern time, according to Cyprus's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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That man, a university professor named Ibrahim Samaha, called a BBC program to clarify that he was, in fact, a passenger on the hijacked plane — not the hijacker.
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Earlier, two Cypriot broadcasters reported the hijacker had dropped a letter on the apron of Larnaca airport that appeared to be demanding the release of prisoners in Egypt.
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Sadly for the man, the bird was found by security officials in Cyprus after the hijacker was in custody and the plane was readying to return to Cairo.
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At the last moment, it leveled out again and began another climb, looking for all the world as though it were being piloted by a hopelessly indecisive hijacker.
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When the flight landed in Seattle, the hijacker exchanged the flight's 36 passengers for $200,000 in cash and four parachutes, the FBI said, keeping several crew members on board.
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A video found after his father's death shows his marriage to the daughter of Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
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The hijacker, named in media reports as Seif Eldin Mustafa, released most of the passengers, but Innes — along with two passengers and four crew members — was kept on board.
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The chief engineer opened the door of the pilot's cabin and found himself nose to nose with the chief hijacker, a German, armed with a pistol and a grenade.
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Dr. Burney said he and Dr. Leso took turns observing the questioning in 2002 of Mohammed al-Qahtani, who was accused of being an intended hijacker in the Sept.
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The younger bin Laden is married to the daughter of Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker in the September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, the State Department said.
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It was subsequently claimed by staff at Alexandria University — where Samaha is reportedly a professor of veterinary medicine — that he was a passenger on the plane and not the hijacker.
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Television channels showed video footage of the hijacker, identified as Seif Eldin Mustafa, 59, being searched by security men at a metal detector at Borg al-Arab airport in Alexandria.
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The details are still rolling out, but according to news reports, apparently the hijacker, Seif El Din Mustafa, threatened to detonate an explosive device he claimed was concealed on his person.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - The hijacker who forced an EgyptAir flight heading to Cairo from Alexandria to land in Cyprus is thought to be strapped with explosives, Cyprus broadcaster CYBC said on Tuesday.
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LONDON — The grinning man who posed with the hijacker of an EgyptAir flight for the "selfie of a lifetime" is set to appear on this year's Celebrity Big Brother, according to reports.
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In March, a hijacker wearing a fake explosives vest diverted an EgyptAir domestic flight to the island of Cyprus, where an hourslong standoff result in his arrest and no injuries to passengers.
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Here's the story of Osama's son, who is implicated in the assassination of a Pakistani prime minister, vowed to avenge his father's death, and married the daughter of a 9/11 hijacker.
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Libya's Channel TV station said one hijacker, who gave his name as Moussa Shaha, had said by phone he was the head of Al-Fateh Al-Jadid, or The New Al-Fateh.
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A leading theory on why Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished on March 8, 2014, doesn't point to a hijacker, pilot error, or a mechanical failure — but to the captain of the plane.
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Earlier the Cyprus state broadcaster reported that the hijacker had demanded the release of female prisoners in Egypt, where the government is facing an Islamist militant insurgency based in the Sinai Peninsula.
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During his 1979 trial for check kiting, forgery and the illegal possession of explosives, he allegedly phoned several reporters from California's San Joaquin County jail brazenly hinting that he was the infamous hijacker.
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The Airbus 320 was carrying 70 people: 55 passengers, including the hijacker, seven crew members and, because it was a connecting flight, an additional eight crew members, according to EgyptAir's Dina El Foly.
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In a news conference later, Rio de Janeiro state Governor Wilson Witzel said there was a strong smell of gasoline in the bus and that the hijacker had a lighter in his hand.
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DB COOPER SLEUTH CLAIMS HIJACKER WAS CIA OPERATIVE, FBI IS &aposFLAT-OUT LYING&apos ABOUT CASE After the skyjacking, Reca later became a high-level covert intelligence operative, according to the publishing company.
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Later, we'll get confirmation of what some of us already suspect: The truck was hijacked together with the driver, who had already died when the hijacker steered the massive vehicle into the crowd.
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When dormant, the virus exists quietly within the nuclei of long-lived immune cells called CD4+ memory T cells where it lives not so much as a hijacker, but as an innocuous passenger.
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The alleged hijacker of an EgyptAir plane has been arrested after hours of tense negotiations, according to Cypriot police, freeing his remaining hostages and emerging from the grounded plane with his hands up.
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The first cache, Dr. Ramirez said, came from the Justice Department, which had assembled photographs to introduce as evidence at the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker in the Sept.
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ATHENS, March 29 (Reuters) - The hijacker who forced an EgyptAir flight heading to Cairo from Alexandria to land in Cyprus is thought to be strapped with explosives, Cyprus broadcaster CYBC said on Tuesday.
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Investigators accuse Ortiz of being a prolific SIM hijacker who mainly targeted victims to steal their cryptocurrency but also to take over their social media accounts with the goal of selling them for Bitcoin.
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While the bureau has chased down an immense number of leads and tips from the public, including accounts of sudden unexplained wealth and detailed descriptions matching the hijacker, none has resulted in definitive answers.
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The crisis ended hours later with the surrender of the hijacker, Seif Eldin Mustafa, who turned out to be wearing a fake explosive vest fashioned from mobile phone cases that had been taped together.
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Hamza bin Laden was believed to be in his early 30s at the time of his death, and was married to the daughter of Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker in the September 11 attacks.
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The hijacker, identified by authorities as Seif El Din Mustafa, was "unstable" and it appeared at first that he might have had explosives, Homer Mavrommatis, director of the Cypriot foreign ministry crisis center, told CNN.
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Despite the claims of the publishing company, the FBI has never ruled out the possibility that the hijacker was killed in the jump -- which took place during a rainstorm at night, over rough, wooded terrain.
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I suppose if you're looking to take photos of your vacation, a hijacker photo-op makes about as much sense as something like a selfie at Auschwitz or dressing up as a bad Mussolini impersonator.
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NICOSIA, Cyprus – Cyprus&apos Supreme Court has rejected an Egyptian hijacker&aposs appeal against his extradition, ruling that there are no legal reasons for the man not to return to his homeland to face justice.
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Savelli sent PIX11 a summary of prior surveillance detectives did on the elder Wahhaj and his son, which included that the mosque was believed to have been visited by chief 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta.
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Bloody tyre tracks showed the path of the truck, which was stolen by a masked hijacker while making a beer delivery to a tapas bar further up Drottninggatan, according to Spendrups Brewery spokesman Marten Lyth.
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It said Hamza, who was born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in either 1986 or 1989, had married the daughter of Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
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Fun fact: The hijacker never actually referred to himself as D.B. The moniker originates with a mistake made by a local reporter who confused the hijacker's pseudonym with the name of an early suspect in Oregon.
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But three unidentified foreign passengers, as well as the pilot, co-pilot and two cabin crew members, were still aboard the plane, along with the hijacker, EgyptAir said in a Facebook post at 6:30 a.m.
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Theorists suggested Chandler could be the Zodiac Killer, or a mysterious plane hijacker named D.B. Cooper, but the truth was that no one knew who the man had been before he took Chandler's name and identity.
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Wired labeled it "the most evil thing on the Internet," BBC News deemed it a "web hijacker," and the forums on SpywareInfo reportedly had more than 25,000 posts about the software and how to remove it.
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While Tuesday's hijacking was not an act of terrorism — Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades said the hijacker wanted to see his ex-wife, and his vest reportedly contained no explosives — the incident underscores Egypt's recent security failings.
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But after it came to a conclusion on a Cyprus runway with the arrest of the hijacker, the safe release of the passengers, and no bloodshed, what was most striking was how retro the whole drama seemed.
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Much like the time Senator Ted Cruz denied being the Zodiac killer, Mr. Wiseau disputed the fan theory that he is D.B. Cooper, the notorious aircraft hijacker who escaped a flight in the 1970s with $200,000 in cash.
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The alleged hijacker, whom Cyprus officials identified as Seif Eldin Mustafa, had alleged claimed to be wearing a suicide belt and threatened to detonate it, but officials could not confirm if that was true, reports The New York Times.
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DB COOPER SLEUTH CLAIMS HIJACKER WAS CIA OPERATIVE, FBI IS &aposFLAT-OUT LYING&apos ABOUT CASE The FBI says it will reopen the D.B. Coooper case only if it obtains Cooper&aposs parachute or more of the ransom money.
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Ahead of his surrender and arrest, the lone alleged hijacker had released most of the passengers and crew with only three passengers, the pilot, co-pilot and three cabin crew still on board at the end of the siege.
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The EgyptAir hijacker who diverted a plane carrying 55 passengers from Borg El Arab airport in Alexandria to Larnaca in Cyprus on Tuesday flashed a victory sign at photographers as he headed to prison for eight days Wednesday morning.
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Asked to describe the "most significant legal activities you have pursued," Wray highlights terror cases from his time at Justice, including the conviction of al Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui, widely referenced as the 20th hijacker in the 9/11 terror attacks.
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He'd actually encountered Harris' hijacker before, a man named Georgi Marhasin who lives in Toronto and had used a similar strategy to steal the listings of a shoehorn seller in Passaic, New Jersey, and a seller of magic tricks in Brandon, South Dakota.
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All the checks of laptops, shoes and liquids made flying far safer, though the danger of human error, negligence and sabotage can never be eliminated, as demonstrated when the Egyptian hijacker managed to board a plane last Tuesday with a fake explosive belt.
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One, you would be put in a South Havana dormitory called Hijacker House, where you were given about 16 square feet of living space with a cot, and they give you 40 pesos a month, (and) you kind of have to fend for yourself.
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But 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi nationals, and in February, Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called "20th hijacker" who pleaded guilty to participating in an al Qaeda conspiracy in connection to the 9/11 attacks, alleged members of the Saudi royal family supported al Qaeda.
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DB COOPER LETTER REVEALS HIJACKER&aposS TRUE IDENTITY, SLEUTHS CLAIM The letter began tauntingly, "I knew from the start that I wouldn&apost be caught," and was sent to four papers: The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Seattle Times.
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In sandy and breathy tones, the instruments mold themselves to the speech patterns so that they smudge both the contours of the words and the character of the voice: a creepy imitation of the sort of voice distortion a hijacker might use to make ransom calls.
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That disaster, which has precipitated a currency crisis in recent months, has brought a deep crisis of faith in Egypt's ability to keep its airports and planes secure — fears that were briefly exacerbated early in Tuesday's crisis when Egyptian officials identified the wrong man as the hijacker.
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The activist has worked his way up from rural poverty to make a life for himself in Delhi, and as he considers whether to go through with the attack he thinks about the 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta, who trained as an urban planner in Hamburg.
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The idea was when you got your ticket, the ticket agent would give you a once-over, and if you fit this list of 20-some behavioral cues that might be indicative that you might be a hijacker, you might be beckoned over for kind of a private search.
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I would say I hope that the radio hijacker branches out into the rest of Doc Cox's oeuvre but honestly (with the exception of the snowman one, which would be a nice change at Christmas) it's almost too gross, mostly just because the guy sings like he's being physically squeezed.
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FBI RELEASES 1971 LETTER THAT D.B. COOPER SLEUTH SAYS COULD BE FROM NOTORIOUS HIJACKER Thomas Colbert, a documentary filmmaker who helped put together the 40-member team, said in January his team made the connection from work a code breaker uncovered in each of five letters allegedly sent by Cooper.
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"The suspect asked all passengers and crew to hand in their passports, then gave two messages to a member of the crew, asking that the pilot be informed that he was a hijacker and wanted to land at an airport in Turkey, Greece or Cyprus, but preferably Cyprus," Lambrianou said.
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Things worked out fine in the end, everyone was safe, and I suspect that the air crew sized up this man, this hijacker, who seems like he was somewhat mentally unbalanced, sized him up and realized their best policy was to get the plane safely on the ground somewhere and deal with this.
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There have been accusations that this unquestioning support could allow world passport holders to use the documents for criminal purposes: In 2006, an American-born terrorist used one to travel around South America, where he planned two hotel bombings; in 1996, a cruise ship hijacker used one to flee from Italy to Spain before he was eventually recaptured.
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Here's what we know so far: Cairo-bound plane took off from Alexandria but diverted to CyprusEgyptian national Seif El Din Mustafa claimed to be wearing suicide beltCyprus says Mustafa hijacked plane over ex-wifeAll passengers are now free and the hijacker is in custodyOfficials say Mustafa is unstable but did not possess explosives This live blog has wrapped -- read our full report on today's hijacking here.
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Despite the alleged findings of the History Channel special, the FBI recently announced the agency "will no longer actively investigate" the D.B. Cooper case "in order to focus on other investigative priorities," according to Ayn Dietrich-Williams, the FBI's media coordinator, the agency However, Dietrich-Williams adds, "Should specific physical evidence emerge – related specifically to the parachutes or the money taken by the hijacker – individuals with those materials are asked to contact their local FBI field office."
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