A thief broke into a flight school at 4am at Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles and hijacked a plane – before crashing it into a building, according to authorities. A single-engine Cessna ...

The temper of a Mexican airline pilot reached boiling point on Friday, when he decided to barricade himself inside the ...

A small passenger plane was reportedly hijacked by a knife-wielding man in Belize on Thursday. A source at the airport in Belize told Newsweek that "all flights are grounded" and that staff are ...

A little-known hijacking from decades ago resurfaces, revealing how two men once accused of using a toy gun to seize an ...

Data links and flight control systems developed for U.S. Air Force Predator unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could be used to prevent aircraft hijacking, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems of San ...

FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION last week withdrew a proposal that would have required Part 121 aircraft to have a transponder that could be activated to continuously transmit an emergency code in ...

WELLINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - A Somali woman was sentenced to nine years in jail in New Zealand's first aircraft hijacking case, local media reported on Friday. Asha Ali Abdille, 36, a refugee from ...

Indian Airlines Flight 427, a domestic passenger flight of the Indian Airlines between Srinagar Airport and the Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport, was involved in an aircraft hijacking that ...