skyjack

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  1. subject an aircraft to air piracy
    the plane was skyjacked to Uzbekistan
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How To Use skyjack In A Sentence

  • For Galen Cook, his lifelong interest in the mysterious skyjacker began on his boyhood newspaper route in Alaska.
  • After being skyjacked (along with comely Dale Arden) to the planet Mongo, Flash (Sam Jones) learns that its merciless ruler, Emperor Ming (Max von Sydow), plans to destroy Earth and take Dale as his concubine. 31 Days: Tricks and Treats: Day 21: Morning
  • It was the only skyjacked plane that had four, not five, hijackers. CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2001
  • The number of skyjackings has risen alarmingly this year.
  • The pilot of the plane radioed in that he was being skyjacked by a man carrying two hand grenades. CNN Transcript Apr 1, 2003
  • He found that with the detectors in place from January 1973, the number of skyjacking attempts declined from close to forty a year to one.
  • In the 1960s, as terrorists began seizing control of airliners, the verb skyjack was coined, but it has since fallen into disuse. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
  • Here, Massimo freezes it into a Martian soundscape, and thus allows it to escape his grasp in an unremarkable skyjacking.
  • Quadra-Lift can drop the car 1.6 inches below standard height for passenger entry, or it can skyjack the Grand Cherokee to over eleven inches of ground clearance. Speed:Sport:Life
  • It is also the only unsolved skyjacking in the world. Times, Sunday Times
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