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Author
Series
Fredrika Bergman mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"HOSTAGE: Shortly after a crowded New York-bound Boeing 747 takes off from Stockholm, a bomb threat is found in one of the aircraft's lavatories. The demands are directed at both the Swedish and US governments. Police Superintendent Alex Recht teams up with the energetic -- and often abrasive -- Eden Lundell from the security service's counter-terrorism unit to deal with the hijacking. Fredrika Bergman, who is currently working at the Justice Department,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"This is a fictionalized story based on the amazing real life experiences of Miriam Moss, a fifteen year old English school girl who was held hostage on a plane hijacked by the Palestinian Liberation Front in 1970"--
Author
Series
Eastern European crime series volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
5) Skyjacked
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Five teenagers from the elite Hartwell Academy are on their way back to New York from an end-of-summer camping trip in Idaho when they realize that something has gone wrong; one of them has become violently ill, and their private plane has apparently been hijacked and is headed in the wrong direction--and even if they can somehow break into the cockpit and manage to overpower the hijacker, they have no idea how to fly the plane, much less land it....
Author
Series
Presidential Agent novels volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
7) Pitch dark
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Tuck Durante, a shipraider, and Lana Gray, a curator, must work together to try to rescue a space capsule hijacked by nightmarish creatures who kill with a scream.
8) Double down
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Veteran thieves Nolan and Jon discover that their flight home with their ill-gotten spoils is being skyjacked while a mob-connected family in Iowa believes the thieves and stop the plane from being rerouted for a six-figure fee.
Author
Series
Unsolved case files volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A man in his mid-forties, wearing a suit and overcoat, buys a ticket for Northwest Orient Airlines flight 305 bound for Seattle. The man presents his demands: $200,000 in cash and four parachutes. If the demands are not met, he threatens to detonate the explosive device in his briefcase. So begins the astonishing true story of the man known as D.B. Cooper, and the only unsolved airplane hijacking case in the United States. Comic panels, reproductions...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In August 1978, the Iron Curtain still hung heavily across Europe. To escape from oppressive East Berlin, an East German couple, Hans Detlef Alexander Tiede and Ingrid Ruske, hijacked a Polish airliner and diverted it to the American sector of West Berlin. Along with the couple, several passengers spontaneously defected to the West, and were welcomed by US officials. But within hours, Communist officials reminded the West of the anti-hijacking agreements...
11) Air Force One
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
An uncompromising U.S. President has just told the world he will not negotiate with terrorists. But when Russian terrorists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision-- give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.
Author
Series
Certain magical index volume 27
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of Acqua’s assault, Touma and Index find themselves on a plane to England. But as Index eagerly awaits her inflight meal, the plane is taken over by a mysterious hijacker! Can the pair resolve the situation, and will Index ever get her food?"--
15) Con Air
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998?]
Language
English
Description
A prison parolee on his way to freedom faces impossible odds when the maximum security transport plane he's on is skyjacked by the most vicious criminals in the country, led by the infamous murderer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom.
16) I am DB Cooper
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A modern day treasure hunt to uncover truths about the only unsolved hijacking in US history.
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