* Dymshits – Kuznetsov hijacking affair

The Dymshits – Kuznetsov aircraft hijacking affair (, or Дело группы Дымшица-Кузнецова ) ( Leningrad Process ) was an attempt to hijack a civilian aircraft on 15 June 1970 by a group of Soviet refuseniks in order to escape to the West.

In 1979, Ginzburg was released and expelled to the United States, along with four other political prisoners ( Eduard Kuznetsov, Mark Dymshits, Valentin Moroz, and Georgy Vins ) and their families, as part of a prisoner exchange.

Mark Dymshits and Eduard Kuznetsov were sentenced to capital punishment but after international protests it was appealed and replaced with 15 years of incarceration,

After long negotiations, on 27 April 1979, they were exchanged for five Soviet political prisoners: Aleksandr Ginzburg, Eduard Kuznetsov, Mark Dymshits, Valentin Moroz, and Georgy Vins.

One of the participants, Mark Dymshits, was a former military pilot.

* Anatoly Vasilievich Kuznetsov ( 1929 – 1979 ), Soviet writer, author of Babi Yar

* Ivan Sergeyevich Kuznetsov ( 1867 – 1942 ), Russian architect

* Pavel Varfolomevich Kuznetsov ( 1878 – 1968 ), Russian painter

* Aleksey Kuznetsov ( 1929 – 2003 ), Soviet cross-county skier

* Vasili Kuznetsov ( athlete ) ( 1932 – 2001 ), Soviet decathlete

* Alexey Kuznetsov ( 1905 – 1950 ), Soviet politician

* Vasili Kuznetsov ( politician ) ( 1901 – 1990 ), Soviet politician

* Fyodor Kuznetsov ( 1898 – 1961 ), a military commander of the Soviet Union

* Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov ( 1904 – 1974 ), an Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union

* Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov ( 1911 – 1995 ), a prominent Soviet aerospace engineer and the chief of the Kuznetsov Design Bureau

* 2233 Kuznetsov, an asteroid named for Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov ( 1911 – 1944 ), a Russian partisan fighter of World War II, and a Hero of the Soviet Union.

* Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov – A Soviet naval officer and People's Commissar of State for the Navy during World War II.

* Nikolai Kuznetsov – intelligence officer responsible for the kidnappings and assassinations of several high-ranking Nazis.

* January 21 – The Soviet Union commissions the " heavy aircraft-carrying missile cruiser " Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov.

* Nikolai Kuznetsov ( 1902 – 74 ): Appointed March 3, 1955 ; demoted February 17, 1956 ; restored posthumously July 26, 1988

* Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov ( 1911 – 1995 ), Soviet jet and rocket engine designer, Hero of Socialist Labor

* Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov ( painter ) ( 1850 – 1930 ), Ukrainian-Russian painter

* Nikolai Efimovich Kuznetsov ( 1879 – 1970 ), Russian and Soviet painter

* Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov ( 1904 – 1974 ), Soviet Naval officer

* Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov ( 1911 – 1944 ), Soviet intelligence agent during World War II

* Nikolay Kuznetsov ( fencer ) ( 1882 – after 1912 ), Russian fencer

* 1978 – Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities.

* 1948 – The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first aircraft hijacking of a commercial plane.

* 1968 – The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying 10 crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

* 1970 – King Hussein of Jordan declares military rule following the hijacking of four civilian airliners by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ).

The aircraft involved in the hijacking was a Boeing 757 – 222, registration number N591UA.

* Madeline Amy Sweeney ( 1966 – 2001 ), flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11 when it was flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center as part of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks ; she was the first person to report the hijacking.

Leon Klinghoffer ( September 24, 1916 – October 8, 1985 ) was a disabled American appliance manufacturer who was murdered and thrown overboard by Palestinian terrorists in the hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985.

Craxi rejected the US extradition order and let Abu Abbas – chief of the hijackers, present on the plane – flee to Yugoslavia ; the four hijackers were later found guilty, and sentenced to prison terms ( in USA supposed to be relatively light, above all for the juvenile offender present between them ) for hijacking and murder of a Jewish American citizen, Leon Klinghoffer.

* 1972 – Operation Isotope – foiling the hijacking of Sabena Flight 571 in Tel Aviv, Israel ( hostages rescue ).

* 1976 – Operation Thunderbolt ( Operation Jonathan ) – hostage rescue following Air France aircraft hijacking to Entebbe, Uganda.

* May 1 – The first hijacking of an American airliner takes place, when Antulio Ramirez Ortiz commandeers a National Airlines plane bound from Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida, to Key West, Florida, and forces it to fly to Cuba.

* September 5 – President of the United States John F. Kennedy signs legislation making aircraft hijacking a federal crime in the United States.

* November 15 – The first attenpted aircraft hijacking in Australia takes place when Miloslav Hrabinec attempts to hijack Ansett Airlines Flight 232, a Fokker F27 Friendship with 31 other people on board, as it is descending to land at Alice Springs.

* May 24 – Barbara Ann Oswald hijacks a St. Louis, Missouri-based charter helicopter and orders its pilot, Allen Barklage, to fly it to United States Penitentiary, Marion, in Marion, Illinois, so that her husband, Garrett B. Trapnell – imprisoned there for a 1972 airliner hijacking – can escape.

* 24 December 1994 – Air France Flight 8969 hijacking in Algiers by three members of Armed Islamic Group of Algeria and another terrorist.

In the 1950s, Bulger was first in federal custody at Atlanta Penitentiary ( 1956 – 1959 ) for armed robbery and hijacking.

Gosset asserts that libertarian Justin Raimondo of antiwar. com agrees with the " hijacking " thesis, but then quotes him: " The people who came to these demonstrations – 100, 000 in Washington – don't share the politics of the organizers.