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Aircraft Hijacking Stock Photos

Browse 2,453 aircraft hijacking photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images.

Picture dated November 1972 shows current Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu receiving a diploma of merit from then Israeli President Zalman Shazar...

ISRAEL-NETANYAHU-BIO

Benjamin Netanyahu, Hijack, Aeroplane

Crew of Hijacked El-Al Aircraft Return to Israel from Algeria

Crew of Hijacked El-Al Aircraft Return to Israel from Algeria

Israel, Algeria

Demonstrator in Tel Aviv holds up a flyer supporting the three Jews on trial in Leningrad for allegedly trying to hijack a Soviet aircraft to Israel.

Demonstrator Holding Up a Flyer

Russia, Israel, Judaism

In this picture taken December 27 Afghan Taliban militia head towards a hijacked Indian Airlines Airbus AC-814 at Kandahar Airport. India has accused...

(FILES) In this picture taken December 2

Kandahar - Afghanistan, Hijack, Taliban

In this picture taken 30 December 1999, Taliban Islamic militia commandos ride in the rear of a truck towards an aircraft of Indian Airlines hijacked...

(FILES) In this picture taken 30 Decembe

Hijack, Aeroplane, Kandahar - Afghanistan

Taliban Islamic militia commandos in pick-up trucks rush towards the Indian hijacked plane at Kandahar airport in Afghanistan, 30 December 1999....

AFGHAN-INDIA-HIJACK

Hijack, Kandahar - Afghanistan, Kandahar Airport

In this picture taken December 27 A Taliban security official receives a paper on which the hijackers of Indian Airlines flight IC-814 have put their...

(FILES) In this picture taken December 2

Hijack, Kandahar - Afghanistan, Aeroplane

Taliban Islamic militia commandos pass by the nose of Indian hijacked plane with US made heat seeking surface to air Stinger missiles on their...

Taliban Islamic militia commandos pass by the nose

Hijack, Aeroplane, USA

In this picture taken 28 December 1999, an Afghan man walks on the runway as an aircraft of Indian Airlines hijacked by Islamic Kahsmiri militants...

(FILES)In this picture taken 28 December

Hijack, Kandahar - Afghanistan, Aeroplane

Crack troops of the ruling Afghan Taliban militia heading towards the hijacked Indian Airlines airbus at Khandahar airport, 27 December 1999. Four...

AFGHAN-INDIA-HIJACK

Hijack, Kandahar - Afghanistan

Relatives of the hijacked passengers on Indian Airlines flight IC-814 block the traffic on a road outside the residence of Indian Prime Minister Atal...

INDIA-HIJACK-DEMONSTRATION

Crack troops of the ruling Afghan Taliban militia heading towards the hijacked Indian Airlines airbus at Khandahar airport, 27 December 1999. Four...

AFGHAN-INDIA-HIJACK

Hijack, Kandahar - Afghanistan

French police storm the Air France Airbus A300, which was hijacked by four Algerian terrorists with the GIA , at Marseilles Marignane Airport and...

Hijack of Airbus Plane by GIA Terrorists

Air France, Hijack, Terrorism

Huge columns of smoke pour from the wreckage of three multimillion dollar international airlines destroyed by Palestine Liberation Organization...

Hijacked Passenger Airplanes Burning in Jordan Desert

Hijack, Boeing 707

Terrorists blow up one of three hijacked airplanes after removing hostages. The terrorists agreed to free all the hostages except for forty Israelis...

Hijackers Destroying Airplanes

Hijack, Airport, 1970-1979

An armed Afghan Taliban trooper stands alert beside the hijacked Indian Airlines A300 Airbus plane at Khandahar airport in southern Afghanistan, 27...

AFGHAN-INDIA-HIJACK

One of the six heavy armed Lebanese Chi'ite Muslim who hijacked the Royal Jordanian Alia Boeing 727, 11 June 1985 at the Beirut airport patrols in...

One of the six heavy armed Lebanese Chi'

Hijack, Jordan - Country, Beirut

Seattle: Northwest Airlines 727, hijacked on a flight from Portland, Oregon to Seattle, sits on the ground here 11/24. Before being refueled and...

Northwest Airliner on Runway During Hijacking

Hijack, Seattle, Northwest Airlines

One of the two heavily armed Lebanese Shiite militants who hijacked a TWA Boeing 727 passenger aircraft at Beirut Airport looks out from the...

TOPSHOT-LEBANON-PLANE-HIJACK-HEZBOLLAH

Hezbollah, Hijack, Aeroplane

An unidentified hostage waves as a group of hostages disembark from a plane at New Delhi's international airport 31 December 1999, after spending 8...

INDIA-HIJACK-HOSTAGES-ARRIVE

The crew of another Indian Airlines plane listen to news on radio about the hijacked Indian plane at Kandahar airport in Afghanistan, 29 December...

AFGHAN-INDIA-HIJACK

In September 1970 PFLP gunmen hijacked 3 passenger jet airliners and diverted them to Dawson Field, remote desert airfield near Amman Jordan, where...

Hostages hijacked by PFLP gunmen climb on board Swissair passenger jet grounded on Dawson Field after september 1970 hijacking near Amman, Jordan

Hijack, Zarqa, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Amman, Jordan: Miss Layla Khaled, one of two hijackers of an American T.W.A. Jetliner in Damascus 8/29, smiles after returning to her guerrilla base...

Hijacker Holding Machine Gun

Leila Khaled, Hijack, Photography

Taliban Islamic militia commandos riding on a pickup truck pass an engine of the hijacked Indian Airlines plane with US made heat seeking surface to...

Taliban Islamic militia commandos riding on a pick

Hijack, Kandahar - Afghanistan, Afghanistan

The hijacked Indian Airlines Airbus A300 sits parked on the tarmac along side a plane from the Afghan carrier Ariana, at Kandahar airport in southern...

AFGHANISTAN-INDIA-HIJACK-PLANE

Taliban Islamic militia commandos head towards the hijacked Indian Airlines plane at Kandahar airport in Afghanistan, 30 December 1999. Scores of...

AFGHAN-INDIA-HIJACK

Hijack, Kandahar Airport, Aeroplane

Exiled Kashmiri separatist leader Hashim Qureshi , accused of hijacking an Indian Airlines plane in 1971, is seen surrounded by police officers as he...

INDIA-HIJACK-SURRENDER-QURESHI

Aeroplane, Hijack, Indian Airlines

Afghans nationals watch from their van as hijackers flee from an Indian Airlines Airbus after jumping from the cockpit at Kandahar airport in...

AFGHAN-INDIA-HIJACKERS-LADDER

Hijack, Kandahar - Afghanistan, Kandahar Airport

Taliban security official receives a paper on which the hijackers of Indian Airlines flight IC-814 have put their demands at Khandahar airport, 27...

AFGHAN-INDIA-HIJACK

Hijack, 1999, Flying

In September 1970 PFLP gunmen hijacked 3 passenger jet airliners and diverted them to Dawson Field, remote desert airfield near Amman Jordan, where...

Hijacked TWA and Swissair jets stand on Dawson Field desert airstrip after being diverted by PFLP gunmen with shadows of captive hostages in foreground

Jordan - Country, Hijack, 1970

Flight engineer Yona Lichtman is reunited with his daughter at Lod Airport in Israel, after his El Al aircraft was hijacked by members of the Popular...

Hijack, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Hijacked El-Al Aircraft Returns to Israel from Algeria

Hijacked El-Al Aircraft Returns to Israel from Algeria

Passengers of the Lufthansa jet hijacked by Arabs earlier this week leave the plane upon their arrival at the Athens Airport. Joseph Kennedy, son of...

Passengers Walking out of Airplane

Lufthansa, Aeroplane, Hijack

The hijacked Boeing 707 of Lebanon's Middle East Airlines, with the safety chutes down, at Lydda Airport, Israel. The plane was hijacked by a...

Israel, Lebanon - Country, War

Hostages from three hijacked aircraft attend a press conference by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in the desert, in front of a...

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Hijack, Aeroplane

Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia soldiers besides an Indian hijacked plane reading newspaper carrying hijackers news at Kandahar airport 29...

AFGHAN-INDIA-HIJACK

Hijack, Kandahar - Afghanistan

Taliban Islamic militia commandos riding on a pickup truck pass an engine of the hijacked Indian Airlines plane with US made heat seeking surface to...

AFGHAN-INDIA-HIJACK

Hijack, Kandahar - Afghanistan, Kandahar Airport

Hashim Qureshi, hijacker of an Indian Airlines plane in 1971, breaks down while talking to reporters in a Srinagar 13 January 2000. Quershi...

INDIA-KASHMIR-QUERSHI

Aeroplane, Hijack, Indian Airlines

Taliban militia officials escort a hijacker towards a jeep as the plane is repaired by Indian engineers at the Kandahar airport runway 28 December...

AFGHAN-INDIA-HIJACKER-2

Hijack, Kandahar Airport, Aeroplane

Cuban President Fidel Castro greets 22 March 2003 in Havana passengers and crew who were aboard a Cuban plane hijacked earlier in the week to...

Rescue workers survey damage to the World Trade Center 11 September, 2001 in New York. Two planes controlled by hijackers crashed into the twin...

US-ATTACKS-RESCUE WORKERS

September 11 2001 Attacks, Aeroplane, Hijack

Jordan, Middle East, September 1970, Three hijacked airliners are blown up by Arab guerillas belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of...

Jordan, Middle East September 1970. Three hijacked airliners are blown up by Arab guerillas belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine at Dawson's Field.

Hijack, Exploding, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Hijacking of a plane from German company Lufthansa by a Palestinian commando. The commando took control of the plane in support of the Red Army...

Lufthansa Plane Hijacked by Palestinian Commando

1970-1979, Lufthansa, Dubai

Terror in the air during foiled hijacking of an Israeli El Al airlines jet is recounted at Toronto International Airport as David Meranda greets his...

Terror in the air during foiled hijacking of an Israeli El Al airlines jet is recounted at Toronto I

One of the six heavily-armed Lebanese Shiite Muslims who hijacked the Royal Jordanian Alia Boeing 727 on 11 June 1985 at Beirut International airport...

TOPSHOT-LEBANON-CHI'ITE MILITIAMEN-ALIA HIJACKING

Terrorism, Hijack

Police forensic officers inspect the interior of the Aghan Airlines Boeing 727 that was held at Stansted by hijackers for four days 11 February 2000....

BRITAIN-AFGHAN/AIRLINE INTERIOR

Stansted Airport, Hijack

Picture released on September 6, 1986 of Pan Am Flight 73, after a 16-hour siege of the Boeing 747-121, hijacked on September 5 at Karachi airport,...

PAKISTAN-TERRORISM-PLANE-HIJACKING-PAN AM

Aeroplane, Hijack, Boeing 747

Close-up of a sign warning of the penalties of airplane hijacking on a check-in counter at National Airport, Washington DC, October 9, 1969.

Anti-Hijacking Warning At National Airport

Hijack, Aeroplane, 1960-1969

Relatives and friends grieve over a coffin carrying 25-year-old Ripin Katyal, who was killed by terrorists on board the hijacked Indian Airlines...

INDIA-HIJACK-BODY

Prisoners released by the Netherlands, in exchange for the hostages on board the British Airway VC-10 airliner, at Tunis–Carthage International...

Prisoner Exchange In Tunis

Aeroplane, Hijack

Lebanese woman cleans the slogans which have been writting by the hijackers on the door of the TWA plane, on July 6, 1985 at Beirut airport. Flight...

LEBANON-TWA-HIJACKING

Hijack, Trans World Airlines, Hezbollah

One of the hijackers of TWA Boeing 727 holding a gun, emerging from the plane cockpit window 19 June 1985 at Beirut airport, orders the newsmen to...

One of the hijackers of TWA Boeing 727 h

Hijack, Hezbollah, 1980-1989

Five of the six heavy armed Lebanese Chi'ite Muslims who hijacked the Royal Jordanian Alia Boeing 727, 11 June 1985 at the Beirut airport pose for...

Five of the six heavy armed Lebanese Chi

Hijack, Jordan - Country

Heavy armed Lebanese Chi'ite Muslim who hijacked the Royal Jordanian Alia Boeing 727, 11 June 1985 at the Beirut airport patrols in front of burning...

Heavy armed Lebanese Chi'ite Muslim who

Hostage, Beirut, Aeroplane

The hijacked Hughes Airwest DC-9 jetliner is isolated at north edge of Stapleton International Airport while Denver Police Department arson, bomb...

Denver Post Archives

War and Conflict, Terrorism, pic: September 1970, Dawson's Field, Jordan, The three highjacked jet airliners hijacked by Palestinian militants are...

War and Conflict Terrorism. pic: September 1970. Dawson's Field, Jordan. The three highjacked jet airliners hijacked by Palestinian militants are blown up at the former RAF.desert airstrip, with dense black smoke and flames billowing skyward. The Arab gu

Hijack, Jordan - Country, Fighter Plane

War and Conflict, Terrorism, pic: September 1970, Dawson's Field, Jordan, Wreckage of the highjacked jet airliners hijacked by Palestinian militants...

War and Conflict Terrorism. pic: September 1970. Dawson's Field, Jordan. Wreckage of the highjacked jet airliners hijacked by Palestinian militants and blown up at the former RAF.desert airstrip. The Arab guerillas had held a Swissair DC8, a BOAC VC10, a

Jordan - Country, Hijack, War

Hostages John Lindsay and Robert Dare are interviewed at Heathrow Airport, having been released by the Palestinian terrorists who hijacked their...

Dawson's Field Hijackings

Lesley Pressley and her fiance Sharukh el Sharif arrive back at Heathrow Airport, having been released by the Palestinian terrorists who hijacked...

Dawson's Field Hijackings

Armed Forces of Malta members go into the hijacked Afriqiyah Airways A320 as it lies on part of the runway of the Malta International Airport, Luqa...

Hijacked Afriqiyah Airways A320

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