He left his family in 2000 to complete the Hajj, but later went to Afghanistan bound for an al-Qaeda training camp where he befriended other future hijackers and would soon be chosen to participate in the attacks.

An Egyptian security agent on board soon kills one of the hijackers before himself being wounded along with two flight attendants.

The former coffee shop owner soon confessed to a litany of terrorism-related crimes, including teaching martial arts to several of the 11 September hijackers and planning a hijacking himself.

The next day, after being refused permission by the Syrian government to dock at Tartus, the hijackers singled out Klinghoffer, a Jew, for murder, shooting him in the forehead and chest as he sat in his wheelchair.

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.

The Israelis kill seven hijackers and between 33 and 45 Ugandan soldiers, destroy 11 Ugandan Air Force MiG-17 fighters on the ground, and rescue 102 of the hostages ; one Israeli commando is killed, three hostages during an Israeli exchange of gunfire with the hijackers, and in retaliation for the raid Ugandan government forces murder the final hostage, who is being held at a hospital.

Massino also arranged the murder of one of his hijackers, Joseph Pastore, in 1976 after having Vitale borrow $ 9, 000 from him on his behalf.

Yamani's biography suggests that the Algerians had used a covert listening device on the front of the aircraft to overhear the earlier conversation between the hijackers, and found that Carlos had in fact still planned to murder the two oil ministers.

Hani Hanjour, one of the hijackers who was trained as a pilot, assumed control of the flight.

An airport security guard and Imam, Abdulaziz al-Omari (,, also transliterated as Alomari or al-Umari ) ( May 28, 1979 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11 as part of the September 11 attacks.

According to Tawfiq bin Attash, Omari was one of a group of future hijackers who provided security at Kandahar airport after their basic training at an al-Qaeda camp.

A former law student and muezzin, Ahmed bin Abdullah al-Nami ( Arabic: أحمد بن عبد الله النامي, ; also transliterated as Alnami ) < span dir =" ltr ">( December 7, 1977 – September 11, 2001 )</ span > was one of four hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 as part of the September 11 attacks.

He was one of 9 hijackers to open a SunTrust bank account with a cash deposit around June 2001, and on June 29 received either a Florida State Identification Card or Drivers License.

He may have been one of three hijackers that listed the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida as their permanent address on drivers ' licenses, though other sources claim he listed the Delray condominium.

Ahmed Ibrahim al-Haznawi (, ) ( October 11, 1980 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of four hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 as part of the September 11 attacks.

He was one of four hijackers believed to be staying at a Kandahar guest house in March 2001, where they were seen by Mohammed Jabarah.

He was one of 9 hijackers to open a SunTrust bank account with a cash deposit around June 2001.

On September 2, 2004, Cantor filed a civil lawsuit against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for allegedly providing money to the hijackers and Al Qaeda, one of a number of organizations to do so.

Khalid Muhammad Abdallah al-Mihdhar (, ; also transliterated as Almihdhar ) < span dir =" ltr ">( May 16, 1975 – September 11, 2001 )</ span > was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77, which was flown into the Pentagon as part of the September 11 attacks.

A former law student, Majed Mashaan Ghanem Moqed (, ; also transliterated as Moqued ) ( June 18, 1977 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77 as part of the September 11 attacks.

Moqed was one of the five hijackers who asked for a state identity card on August 2, 2001.

Nawaf Muhammed Salim al-Hazmi (, ; also known as Rabia al-Makki ) ( August 9, 1976 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77, which was crashed into the Pentagon as part of the September 11 attacks.

All the suspected hijackers were from Saudi Arabia ( fifteen hijackers ), United Arab Emirates ( two hijackers ), Lebanon ( one hijacker ) and Egypt ( one hijacker ).

Salem al-Hazmi (,, also transliterated as Alhazmi ) ( February 2, 1981 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77 as part of the September 11 attacks.

Saeed Abdallah Ali Sulayman al-Ghamdi (, ) ( November 21, 1979 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of four hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 as part of the September 11 attacks.

He was one of 9 hijackers to open a SunTrust bank account with a cash deposit around June 2001.

Of the four aircraft hijacked on September 11the others were American Airlines Flight 11, American Airlines Flight 77 and United Airlines Flight 175United Airlines Flight 93 was the only one that failed to reach its hijackers ' intended target.

At least two of the cellphone calls made by passengers indicate that all the hijackers they saw were wearing red bandannas, and indicated that one of the men, believed to be either Ahmed al-Haznawi or Ahmed al-Nami, had a box tied around his torso, and claimed there was a bomb inside.

On 29 October, hijackers of a West German Lufthansa passenger jet demanded the release of the three surviving gunmen, who had been arrested after the Fürstenfeldbruck gunfight and were being held for trial.

* October 17 – 18 – German Autumn: GSG 9 troopers storm a hijacked Lufthansa passenger plane in Mogadishu, Somalia ; 3 of the 4 hijackers die.

This spot was never filled, and consequently United Flight 93 had four hijackers, not five, which is believed to have led in part to the success of the passenger revolt.

As the CAPPS was only for luggage, the three hijackers did not undergo any extra scrutiny at the passenger security checkpoint.

Iraqi Airways security personnel tried to stop the hijackers, but a hand grenade was detonated in the passenger cabin, forcing the crew to initiate an emergency descent.

During her 23-minute call, she reported that none of the crew could open the cockpit door, passenger Daniel M. Lewin and two flight attendants had been stabbed and one of the hijackers had sprayed Mace in the first class cabin.

As the CAPPS was only for luggage, the three hijackers did not undergo any extra scrutiny at the passenger security checkpoint.

The hijackers shot a crew member and a passenger and forced the plane to fly to several different African destinations.

The United States Federal Air Marshal Service tested and used the Glaser Safety Slug extensively in the 1970s and 80s on board commercial passenger aircraft to defend against hijackers.

The hijackers have ordered the Captain to say they will kill another passenger every fifteen minutes.

Netanyahu was the only member of the Israeli force to be killed in action on 4 July 1976 during Operation Thunderbolt at Entebbe airport in Uganda, Africa, during which 103 ( of 107 ) Israeli hostages were rescued from Palestinian hijackers who had diverted an Air France passenger jet to the airport one week earlier.

Actually, the officers on the ground had no intention of letting the hijackers get away with any kind of an airplane ; ;

# International common strike in case of the impunity of the hijackers or in case of not letting the crew of the hijacked plane out within 48 hours ;

That imperfection significantly weakened the effectiveness of lawful pursuit after hijackers ;

In March 2001, Ahmed al-Nami appeared in an al-Qaeda farewell video showing 13 of the muscle hijackers before they left their training centre in Kandahar ; while he does not speak, he is seen studying maps and flight manuals.

All four hijackers were shot ; three of them died on the spot.

Personnel at the flight school Jarrah attended described him as “ a normal person .” Jarrah called his family two days, and his girlfriend Aysel Sengün three hours, before boarding United 93 ; Sengün described the conversation as “ pleasant ” and “ normal .” She also claimed that he never mentioned any names of the other hijackers.

** Entebbe Raid: Israeli airborne commandos free 103 hostages being held by Palestinian hijackers of an Air France plane at Uganda's Entebbe Airport ; 1 Israeli soldier and several Ugandan soldiers are killed in the raid.

On September 23, 2001 BBC News reported that al-Shehri was " alive and well " in Casablanca, Morocco and was talking to multiple media organizations ; however, due to confusion over the man's identity, and editorial concerns over conspiracy theories, BBC News later modified the September 23 report by inserting " A man called ... " BBC News considers the September 23 report superseded by an October 5, 2001 report that lists Waleed as one of the alleged hijackers believed by the FBI to be responsible for the September 11 attacks.

Four hijackers and a Kopassus commando are killed and two people are injured ; the two hijackers who surrender are killed on an aircraft taking them and the Kopassus troops to Djakarta.

Airline security personnel try to stop the hijacking, and during the struggle two of the hijackers hand grenades explode ; one of them detonates in the cockpit, causing the plane to crash near Arar, Saudi Arabia, killing 63 of those on board and making it one of the deadliest hijackings in history at the time.

On September 10, 2001, he shared a room with four hijackers ; Mohand al-Shehri, Marwan al-Shehhi and Satam al-Suqami at the Milner Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts.

The plane crash-landed in the Indian Ocean near Grande Comore, Comoros Islands, due to fuel starvation, killing 125 of the 175 passengers and crew on board, along with the hijackers ; the rest of the people on board survived with injuries.

The next day, 16 Israeli Sayeret Matkal commandos led by Ehud Barak and including Benjamin Netanyahu, storm the plane in Operation Isotope, killing two hijackers and capturing the other two ; Netanyahu and three passengers are wounded and one of the wounded passengers later dies of her wounds.

The surviving hijackers force the plane to fly to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates ; after a long stay there, they force it to fly to Damascus, Syria, and Benghazi, Libya, where they release the passengers and crew 89 hours after the hijacking began and blow up the airliner.