Skyjack (Verb)
Meaning
Subject an aircraft to air piracy; "the plane was skyjacked to Uzbekistan".
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- Terrorists attempted to skyjack a commercial airliner in mid-air, but the crew managed to overpower them.
- Passengers were left shaken after their flight was skyjacked and diverted to an unknown destination.
- The hijackers threatened to blow up the plane unless their demands were met, having successfully skyjacked the aircraft.
- Air traffic control received a distress call from a pilot claiming his plane had been skyjacked by armed men.
- Before 9/11, it was rare for a plane to be skyjacked in US airspace.