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Have there really not been any non-islamic hi-jackers since 1968? jimfbleak 12:39 6 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Was the Lockerbie flight hijacked? I thought it was just blown up. Rmhermen 13:58 6 Jun 2003 (UTC)
This article simple lacks internal law issues. -- Toytoy 04:49, Jan 5, 2005 (UTC)
Numerous web sources give the date for the Miss Macao hijack as June 16th (or possibly 15th). Only one independant source has July 16.
compare with July 16
I'll change the article.
Zeimusu | (Talk page) 15:23, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
Go to this website: http://www.waterfrontair.com/history.htm
At 5.30pm on July 16, 1948, Catalina VR-HDT - piloted by American Dale Cramer, 27, known as a gifted softball player, with Sydney-born Ken McDuff, 23, as first officer and Delca da Costa, 22, as hostess, left Hong Kong for the final time.
you can contact me at mollidew@yahoo.com
Dale Cramer was my Uncle. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Trepessa ( talk • contribs) 19:31, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
The mention of the 1970 attempted hijacking by Refuseniks in USSR seems a bit out of place if we consider that no other attempted hijacking is included. If not, I'll just remove that part, I already removed the political commentary on it but I am thinking of removing the attempted hijacking as a whole. Any thoughts? Jewnited ( talk) 16:32, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
"Opponents proposed that shooting down the aircraft and killing everyone onboard would be more reasonable than a pilot firing a pistol in an airliner at a flight deck intruder."
Is there a source for this statement? It looks like it was designed to ridicule opponents of armed pilots. PK9 22:35, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
It was meant to ridicule, as the argument is pure logic, and does not need a source, IMO. the fact that there were opponents to armed pilots here in the USA proves the point. Either you have an aircraft shot down when it is hijacked, or you have a crewmember who can shoot at a hijacker. If you get hijacked, you're getting shot down and everyone dies. If you have an armed flight deck, a federal air marshall, FBI agent, Secret service, or any other special person allowed to carry a pistol on a commercial aircraft, there is some chance everyone onboard will not be killed. If the fight goes bad, everyone dies. same result. -- Kvuo 04:31, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
Can we have a list of movies relating to of revolving around. --unsigned.
The article seems to contradict itself listing the 1954 Israeli hijacking as the first act in civil aviation when the Background paragraph preceeding it states this was actually the Miss Macau incident? It's also a little out of context when most think of hijackings as having a hijacker on a plane, not military or other jets forcing another to land in order to take control. I wonder if this incident should be removed all together or at least more details supplied to make more clear what happend? I also should be modified to state the hostages were held for 2 days, not just "days" (this could mean any length of time really). Your thoughts? Macutty 19:29, 7 September 2006 (UTC)macutty
Made a couple edits, take a look...I think their a little more clear and accurate now.
Updated some flags to represent counrties of origin for the Hijackers rather than the home countries of the respective airlines (does it really matter what country the plane was from?). Working on identifying remaining countries for those not listed. Macutty 17:23, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
Air Highjacking is almost always suicidel to people on board.
Have there been any U.S. hijackings since 9/11? Could Wikipedia share a list of them?
Thank you, TulsaDavid 9/29/2006
Seems like we missed the Cubana hijacking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubana_Flight_455
Also note the comments: "In September of 2005, a US immigration judge ruled that Posada should not be deported to either Cuba or Venezuela because he could be subject to torture"
Can anyone confirm what is claimed at 7500, that this is some kind of special hijacking code. Thanks. Not a dog 04:22, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
Please remove the specific code mentioned for security reasons. Crews may need to set this code in secret. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.43.155.250 ( talk) 17:14, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
The aircraft involved was a Fokker F.7 Trimotor, not a Ford Trimotor. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 12.145.174.220 ( talk) 14:32, 4 January 2007 (UTC).
The article includes the following paragraph:
The first state-hijacking of an airplane is Israel's hijacking of a Syrian airways civilian jet in 1954, with the intent "to get hostages in order to obtain the release of our prisoners in Damascus," who had been captured spying in Syria (Prime Minister Moshe Sharett). Sharett accepted the "factual affirmation of the US State Department that our action was without precedent in the history of international practice."
This text is taken virtually verbatim from Noam Chomsky's website, International Terrorism: Image and Reality, by Noam Chomsky, which reads:
The first airplane hijacking in the Middle East also falls outside the canon: Israel's hijacking of a Syrian airways civilian jet in 1954, with the intent "to get hostages in order to obtain the release of our prisoners in Damascus," who had been captured on a spy mission in Syria (Prime Minister Moshe Sharett). Sharett accepted the "factual affirmation of the US State Department that our action was without precedent in the history of international practice."
However, in two hours of searching on the Internet I have been unable to find a single other source verifying this claim, and only this entry which repeats it. Chomsky's footnote of that paragraph, which also makes other claims, references a book of his, "Pirates and Emperors," and a 1989 newspaper article that I will try to find at the University library.
In the meantime, I think a {{fact}} tag is in order. -- Eliyahu S Talk 23:32, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
The rebuttal of Chomsky's argument appears to me to be an unpublished synthesis; I have tagged it as such. Dricherby 14:57, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
Some publications alleging this incident have referenced it with "New York Times, December 13, 1954", which should be verifiable by someone with access to the NYT archives. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.56.99.175 ( talk) 13:48, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
Upon further research totally confirming Chomsky, I request inclusion of the following paragraph:
"The first state hijacking of a civilian airplane may have been Israel's hijacking of a Syrian Airways Dakota on December 12, 1954, by Israeli war planes shortly after its takeoff, forced to land at Lydda airport. Passengers and crew were detained and interrogated for two days, until international protests forced the Israelis to release them. The hijacking was devised as a plan to force the Syrian government to release five Israeli soldiers apprehended the day before while installing wiretaps on the Syrian telephone network."
with references to The New York Times, December 13, 1954, p. 7 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D05E3DA123DE23BBC4B52DFB467838F649EDE# and Livia Rokach, Israel's Sacred Terrorism, which quotes a diary entry by Israel's then Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett as follows: "I have no reason to doubt the truth of the factual affirmation of the U.S. State Department that our action was without precedent in the history of international practice. (22 December 1954, 607)" https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/essays/rokach.html#CHAPTER%206%20%20Sacred%20Terrorism — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.56.99.175 ( talk) 15:27, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
According to this artivle [1], the first Aircraft hijacking happend in 1919 by Hungarian nobleman Ferenc Nopcsa, who forced the pilot with his gun to land in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. The second by the former Hungarian king Charles IV upon his attempt in returning to the trone of Hungary in 1921.
The article is confused. It says the first hijacking was in 1931 but then says that one occurred in 1929. Surely we need to decide whether this did actually occur and put this in as fact or not. Also "Note:" is surely not commensurate with Wikipedia style guide! — Preceding
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The alleged directive by LAX to passengers to say "Hello, Jack" instead of "Hi, Jack" sounds extremely suspicious. Can we find a citable source for this? Grayston 21:30, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Moved list here. Lists included in articles are not necessary, OR moved as a separate article. For those with separate articles, check if they're included in Category:Airliner_hijackings. KyuuA4 23:53, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
(Moved list to list of notable aircraft hijackings)-- Lendorien ( talk) 18:08, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm curious if anyone recalls a made-for-TV in the 1980s that involved a group of hijackers taking over a plane and then having the passengers fight back and retake the plane. They had the hijackers bound in 1st class and the second half of the movie involved the Captain and one of the flight attendents trying to stop the passengers from holding a vigilante trial. The one thing I remember clearly about the movie was one of the hijackers was a heavy Irish man who said "They'll be no heros on this flight!" when they took over the plane. Such a film as this is impossible to find with a goggle search since United 93 now dominates this very same topic. So, anyone remember the film? - OberRanks ( talk) 05:36, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
Several years ago I read a book on hijackings published in the mid-late 1970s which had extensive coverage of the "fly me to Cuba" hijackings. One of these incidents involved a teenager armed with two pistols who was tricked into letting go of them by a passenger (Allegedly a coin dealer who used the stock he was carrying as a distraction). He was then jumped by two other passengers who tied him up with their belts. I cannot remember much else about the incident beyond the fact it happened in the late 60's and that the hijacker claimed he was doing it to provoke the US into invading Cuba, but I thought it might be worth tracking down for inclusion. Graham1973 ( talk) 02:16, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
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Transponder codes are one of the only lines of defense a pilot has against hi-jackings. To publicly relay this information on Wikipedia is jepordizing pilot and passenger lives.
As a pilot, strongly urge someone to take it down immediately.
I am all for publicly available knowledge, but emergency transponder codes are of no use to the public, so long as they do not wish to take over a plane. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.79.161.243 ( talk) 22:43, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
Tansponder codes are available to everyone who's interesed in them (they appear in Annexes to ICAO Convention and AIPs of particular states). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.74.193.155 ( talk) 08:44, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
As a general rule, the law of one specific country does not deserve its own section on an article about a non-local topic unless the particular importance of the local perspective can be justified. Moreover, I think the content itself is of questionable importance. The first sentence isn't even about hijacking. The second continues with the excruciating detailing of the organization of the law, followed by a trivial definition that doesn't add much to the article. And while the third (and last) sentence is a bit more interesting, it has the problem that the link "Air disaster" redirects to Aviation accidents and incidents, whose working definition, borrowed from the ICAO, appears to exclude some or perhaps even all forms of hijacking. As such, I have gone ahead and deleted the section. I hope this decision sits well with you all. 108.216.31.202 ( talk) 03:41, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
I also removed four paragraphs from the history section for blatantly copying one of the references for the article, per WP:CPI. The section should be repopulated with details about the history of hijacking during its heydays, as well as post-9/11, appropriately compiled. Don't write things like "... the situation has not returned to the pre-1968 level and the number of successful hijackings continues to be high - an average of 18 a year during the 10-year period between 1988 and 1997..." that gives away the decade the (copied) passage was written, and, well, don't plagiarize, period. 108.216.31.202 ( talk) 07:03, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
The Prevention subsection makes spurious claims and has no citations. Adding them now. I suggest the article be locked if they're reverted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.88.244.2 ( talk) 04:47, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
The "Golden Age" dates are clearly incorrect as they self-overlap, which isn't even a thing, but there you have it. I've now made the same amount of sense as this section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.75.116.128 ( talk) 15:41, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
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Why why did this happen we all ask these people were psycho they hated us because we could live in freedom and they couldn't they stabbed passengers and pilots to get the plane and crashed into some very important monuments we will never forget that day — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:5863:8290:79db:e07b:e70a:5151 ( talk) 20:50, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
What does this mean? That Australia had no hijackings ? In which case the statement is absurd. Or there were just a few attempted hijackings? 2001:8003:3082:F500:EDAE:4B0E:FFB9:6D7B ( talk) 08:26, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
As ye know, when hovering over a link with your mouse, there is an article preview showing up, most of the time with an image related to the article (usually the first image in the article). The image of this article here, has no link whatsoever with the subject (I assume it's vandalism), and I wondered if someone could do something about this situation. 173.246.29.147 ( talk) 03:39, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
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Have there really not been any non-islamic hi-jackers since 1968? jimfbleak 12:39 6 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Was the Lockerbie flight hijacked? I thought it was just blown up. Rmhermen 13:58 6 Jun 2003 (UTC)
This article simple lacks internal law issues. -- Toytoy 04:49, Jan 5, 2005 (UTC)
Numerous web sources give the date for the Miss Macao hijack as June 16th (or possibly 15th). Only one independant source has July 16.
compare with July 16
I'll change the article.
Zeimusu | (Talk page) 15:23, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
Go to this website: http://www.waterfrontair.com/history.htm
At 5.30pm on July 16, 1948, Catalina VR-HDT - piloted by American Dale Cramer, 27, known as a gifted softball player, with Sydney-born Ken McDuff, 23, as first officer and Delca da Costa, 22, as hostess, left Hong Kong for the final time.
you can contact me at mollidew@yahoo.com
Dale Cramer was my Uncle. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Trepessa ( talk • contribs) 19:31, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
The mention of the 1970 attempted hijacking by Refuseniks in USSR seems a bit out of place if we consider that no other attempted hijacking is included. If not, I'll just remove that part, I already removed the political commentary on it but I am thinking of removing the attempted hijacking as a whole. Any thoughts? Jewnited ( talk) 16:32, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
"Opponents proposed that shooting down the aircraft and killing everyone onboard would be more reasonable than a pilot firing a pistol in an airliner at a flight deck intruder."
Is there a source for this statement? It looks like it was designed to ridicule opponents of armed pilots. PK9 22:35, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
It was meant to ridicule, as the argument is pure logic, and does not need a source, IMO. the fact that there were opponents to armed pilots here in the USA proves the point. Either you have an aircraft shot down when it is hijacked, or you have a crewmember who can shoot at a hijacker. If you get hijacked, you're getting shot down and everyone dies. If you have an armed flight deck, a federal air marshall, FBI agent, Secret service, or any other special person allowed to carry a pistol on a commercial aircraft, there is some chance everyone onboard will not be killed. If the fight goes bad, everyone dies. same result. -- Kvuo 04:31, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
Can we have a list of movies relating to of revolving around. --unsigned.
The article seems to contradict itself listing the 1954 Israeli hijacking as the first act in civil aviation when the Background paragraph preceeding it states this was actually the Miss Macau incident? It's also a little out of context when most think of hijackings as having a hijacker on a plane, not military or other jets forcing another to land in order to take control. I wonder if this incident should be removed all together or at least more details supplied to make more clear what happend? I also should be modified to state the hostages were held for 2 days, not just "days" (this could mean any length of time really). Your thoughts? Macutty 19:29, 7 September 2006 (UTC)macutty
Made a couple edits, take a look...I think their a little more clear and accurate now.
Updated some flags to represent counrties of origin for the Hijackers rather than the home countries of the respective airlines (does it really matter what country the plane was from?). Working on identifying remaining countries for those not listed. Macutty 17:23, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
Air Highjacking is almost always suicidel to people on board.
Have there been any U.S. hijackings since 9/11? Could Wikipedia share a list of them?
Thank you, TulsaDavid 9/29/2006
Seems like we missed the Cubana hijacking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubana_Flight_455
Also note the comments: "In September of 2005, a US immigration judge ruled that Posada should not be deported to either Cuba or Venezuela because he could be subject to torture"
Can anyone confirm what is claimed at 7500, that this is some kind of special hijacking code. Thanks. Not a dog 04:22, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
Please remove the specific code mentioned for security reasons. Crews may need to set this code in secret. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.43.155.250 ( talk) 17:14, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
The aircraft involved was a Fokker F.7 Trimotor, not a Ford Trimotor. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 12.145.174.220 ( talk) 14:32, 4 January 2007 (UTC).
The article includes the following paragraph:
The first state-hijacking of an airplane is Israel's hijacking of a Syrian airways civilian jet in 1954, with the intent "to get hostages in order to obtain the release of our prisoners in Damascus," who had been captured spying in Syria (Prime Minister Moshe Sharett). Sharett accepted the "factual affirmation of the US State Department that our action was without precedent in the history of international practice."
This text is taken virtually verbatim from Noam Chomsky's website, International Terrorism: Image and Reality, by Noam Chomsky, which reads:
The first airplane hijacking in the Middle East also falls outside the canon: Israel's hijacking of a Syrian airways civilian jet in 1954, with the intent "to get hostages in order to obtain the release of our prisoners in Damascus," who had been captured on a spy mission in Syria (Prime Minister Moshe Sharett). Sharett accepted the "factual affirmation of the US State Department that our action was without precedent in the history of international practice."
However, in two hours of searching on the Internet I have been unable to find a single other source verifying this claim, and only this entry which repeats it. Chomsky's footnote of that paragraph, which also makes other claims, references a book of his, "Pirates and Emperors," and a 1989 newspaper article that I will try to find at the University library.
In the meantime, I think a {{fact}} tag is in order. -- Eliyahu S Talk 23:32, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
The rebuttal of Chomsky's argument appears to me to be an unpublished synthesis; I have tagged it as such. Dricherby 14:57, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
Some publications alleging this incident have referenced it with "New York Times, December 13, 1954", which should be verifiable by someone with access to the NYT archives. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.56.99.175 ( talk) 13:48, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
Upon further research totally confirming Chomsky, I request inclusion of the following paragraph:
"The first state hijacking of a civilian airplane may have been Israel's hijacking of a Syrian Airways Dakota on December 12, 1954, by Israeli war planes shortly after its takeoff, forced to land at Lydda airport. Passengers and crew were detained and interrogated for two days, until international protests forced the Israelis to release them. The hijacking was devised as a plan to force the Syrian government to release five Israeli soldiers apprehended the day before while installing wiretaps on the Syrian telephone network."
with references to The New York Times, December 13, 1954, p. 7 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D05E3DA123DE23BBC4B52DFB467838F649EDE# and Livia Rokach, Israel's Sacred Terrorism, which quotes a diary entry by Israel's then Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett as follows: "I have no reason to doubt the truth of the factual affirmation of the U.S. State Department that our action was without precedent in the history of international practice. (22 December 1954, 607)" https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/essays/rokach.html#CHAPTER%206%20%20Sacred%20Terrorism — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.56.99.175 ( talk) 15:27, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
According to this artivle [1], the first Aircraft hijacking happend in 1919 by Hungarian nobleman Ferenc Nopcsa, who forced the pilot with his gun to land in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. The second by the former Hungarian king Charles IV upon his attempt in returning to the trone of Hungary in 1921.
The article is confused. It says the first hijacking was in 1931 but then says that one occurred in 1929. Surely we need to decide whether this did actually occur and put this in as fact or not. Also "Note:" is surely not commensurate with Wikipedia style guide! — Preceding
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Pfbray (
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The alleged directive by LAX to passengers to say "Hello, Jack" instead of "Hi, Jack" sounds extremely suspicious. Can we find a citable source for this? Grayston 21:30, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Moved list here. Lists included in articles are not necessary, OR moved as a separate article. For those with separate articles, check if they're included in Category:Airliner_hijackings. KyuuA4 23:53, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
(Moved list to list of notable aircraft hijackings)-- Lendorien ( talk) 18:08, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm curious if anyone recalls a made-for-TV in the 1980s that involved a group of hijackers taking over a plane and then having the passengers fight back and retake the plane. They had the hijackers bound in 1st class and the second half of the movie involved the Captain and one of the flight attendents trying to stop the passengers from holding a vigilante trial. The one thing I remember clearly about the movie was one of the hijackers was a heavy Irish man who said "They'll be no heros on this flight!" when they took over the plane. Such a film as this is impossible to find with a goggle search since United 93 now dominates this very same topic. So, anyone remember the film? - OberRanks ( talk) 05:36, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
Several years ago I read a book on hijackings published in the mid-late 1970s which had extensive coverage of the "fly me to Cuba" hijackings. One of these incidents involved a teenager armed with two pistols who was tricked into letting go of them by a passenger (Allegedly a coin dealer who used the stock he was carrying as a distraction). He was then jumped by two other passengers who tied him up with their belts. I cannot remember much else about the incident beyond the fact it happened in the late 60's and that the hijacker claimed he was doing it to provoke the US into invading Cuba, but I thought it might be worth tracking down for inclusion. Graham1973 ( talk) 02:16, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
As you will see, I've added many templates. In fact, I've added so many, I'm going to say that there are too many for me to specifically describe the reason behind each one. Why? Because I'm lazy and have less-important (but more fun!) things to do. Most of the tags should be self-explanatory...but they might not be due to my high expectations of articles on Wikipedia.
Therefore, please pose all questions about tags here...and please, also on my talk page. That way I'll get that little message =D If you don't have questions, perhaps you're not lazy and can help fix the issues? Shicoco ( talk) 06:04, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Transponder codes are one of the only lines of defense a pilot has against hi-jackings. To publicly relay this information on Wikipedia is jepordizing pilot and passenger lives.
As a pilot, strongly urge someone to take it down immediately.
I am all for publicly available knowledge, but emergency transponder codes are of no use to the public, so long as they do not wish to take over a plane. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.79.161.243 ( talk) 22:43, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
Tansponder codes are available to everyone who's interesed in them (they appear in Annexes to ICAO Convention and AIPs of particular states). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.74.193.155 ( talk) 08:44, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
As a general rule, the law of one specific country does not deserve its own section on an article about a non-local topic unless the particular importance of the local perspective can be justified. Moreover, I think the content itself is of questionable importance. The first sentence isn't even about hijacking. The second continues with the excruciating detailing of the organization of the law, followed by a trivial definition that doesn't add much to the article. And while the third (and last) sentence is a bit more interesting, it has the problem that the link "Air disaster" redirects to Aviation accidents and incidents, whose working definition, borrowed from the ICAO, appears to exclude some or perhaps even all forms of hijacking. As such, I have gone ahead and deleted the section. I hope this decision sits well with you all. 108.216.31.202 ( talk) 03:41, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
I also removed four paragraphs from the history section for blatantly copying one of the references for the article, per WP:CPI. The section should be repopulated with details about the history of hijacking during its heydays, as well as post-9/11, appropriately compiled. Don't write things like "... the situation has not returned to the pre-1968 level and the number of successful hijackings continues to be high - an average of 18 a year during the 10-year period between 1988 and 1997..." that gives away the decade the (copied) passage was written, and, well, don't plagiarize, period. 108.216.31.202 ( talk) 07:03, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
The Prevention subsection makes spurious claims and has no citations. Adding them now. I suggest the article be locked if they're reverted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.88.244.2 ( talk) 04:47, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
The "Golden Age" dates are clearly incorrect as they self-overlap, which isn't even a thing, but there you have it. I've now made the same amount of sense as this section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.75.116.128 ( talk) 15:41, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
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Why why did this happen we all ask these people were psycho they hated us because we could live in freedom and they couldn't they stabbed passengers and pilots to get the plane and crashed into some very important monuments we will never forget that day — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:5863:8290:79db:e07b:e70a:5151 ( talk) 20:50, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
What does this mean? That Australia had no hijackings ? In which case the statement is absurd. Or there were just a few attempted hijackings? 2001:8003:3082:F500:EDAE:4B0E:FFB9:6D7B ( talk) 08:26, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
As ye know, when hovering over a link with your mouse, there is an article preview showing up, most of the time with an image related to the article (usually the first image in the article). The image of this article here, has no link whatsoever with the subject (I assume it's vandalism), and I wondered if someone could do something about this situation. 173.246.29.147 ( talk) 03:39, 8 September 2023 (UTC)