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Counter-Terrorism Exercise in Farwaniya Governorate

Kuwaiti Air Force fighters participate in the "Jabriya 1" exercise at Abdullah Al-Mubarak Air Base in Farwaniya Governorate, Kuwait, April 17, 2025. The exercise simulates the hijacking of a civilian aircraft and the subsequent rescue of hostages, aiming to enhance joint coordination and raise readiness in dealing with such crises. Photo by Asad/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Counter-Terrorism Exercise in Farwaniya Governorate

Special forces participate in the "Jabriya 1" exercise at Abdullah Al-Mubarak Air Base in Farwaniya Governorate, Kuwait, April 17, 2025. The exercise simulates the hijacking of a civilian aircraft and the subsequent rescue of hostages, aiming to enhance joint coordination and raise readiness in dealing with such crises. Photo by Asad/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Counter-Terrorism Exercise in Farwaniya Governorate

Special forces participate in the "Jabriya 1" exercise at Abdullah Al-Mubarak Air Base in Farwaniya Governorate, Kuwait, April 17, 2025. The exercise simulates the hijacking of a civilian aircraft and the subsequent rescue of hostages, aiming to enhance joint coordination and raise readiness in dealing with such crises. Photo by Asad/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Counter-Terrorism Exercise in Farwaniya Governorate

Special forces participate in the "Jabriya 1" exercise at Abdullah Al-Mubarak Air Base in Farwaniya Governorate, Kuwait, April 17, 2025. The exercise simulates the hijacking of a civilian aircraft and the subsequent rescue of hostages, aiming to enhance joint coordination and raise readiness in dealing with such crises. Photo by Asad/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Counter-Terrorism Exercise in Farwaniya Governorate

Special forces participate in the "Jabriya 1" exercise at Abdullah Al-Mubarak Air Base in Farwaniya Governorate, Kuwait, April 17, 2025. The exercise simulates the hijacking of a civilian aircraft and the subsequent rescue of hostages, aiming to enhance joint coordination and raise readiness in dealing with such crises. Photo by Asad/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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US: Police Vehicles Pursue Hijacked Bus In Los Angeles

A bus was reportedly hijacked in Los Angeles early on Wednesday, September 25, with hostages on board. This video shows a convoy of police vehicles pursuing the allegedly hijacked bus.

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Israel Judicial Overhaul Protests

06/01/2023 Jerusalem, Israel. Marchers in the Pride Parade in Jerusalem sit on the road to protest the hijacking of a Palestinian flag from one of the marchers, on June 1, 2023. The Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gabir, directed the police to hijack Palestinian flags at demonstrations, which sometimes leads to great violence against demonstrators as well as arrests. Every year, the Pride Parade is especially tense in Jerusalem in light of the large ultra-orthodox and religious community. But this year, the parade was especially tense and secured by the police, in light of the demonstrations against the Judicial Overhaul and the conservative direction the government heads. Demonstrations against the current government broke out in January, 2023, claiming that the new government is promoting Judicial Overhaul laws. Photo by Yahel Gazit/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Israel Judicial Overhaul Protests

Jerusalem, Israel. Marchers in the Pride Parade in Jerusalem sit on the road to protest the hijacking of a Palestinian flag from one of the marchers, on June 1, 2023. The Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gabir, directed the police to hijack Palestinian flags at demonstrations, which sometimes leads to great violence against demonstrators as well as arrests. Every year, the Pride Parade is especially tense in Jerusalem in light of the large ultra-orthodox and religious community. But this year, the parade was especially tense and secured by the police, in light of the demonstrations against the Judicial Overhaul and the conservative direction the government heads. Demonstrations against the current government broke out in January, 2023, claiming that the new government is promoting Judicial Overhaul laws. Photo by Yahel Gazit/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Israel Judicial Overhaul Protests

Jerusalem, Israel. Marchers in the Pride Parade in Jerusalem sit on the road to protest the hijacking of a Palestinian flag from one of the marchers, on June 1, 2023. The Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gabir, directed the police to hijack Palestinian flags at demonstrations, which sometimes leads to great violence against demonstrators as well as arrests. Every year, the Pride Parade is especially tense in Jerusalem in light of the large ultra-orthodox and religious community. But this year, the parade was especially tense and secured by the police, in light of the demonstrations against the Judicial Overhaul and the conservative direction the government heads. Demonstrations against the current government broke out in January, 2023, claiming that the new government is promoting Judicial Overhaul laws. Photo by Yahel Gazit/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Bus hijacking in Japan

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken in the early hours of May 12, 2014, shows an intercity bus that was hijacked the previous night by a man holding scissors in Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The 45-year-old hijacker was arrested in Ebino in the prefecture in the early hours of May 12. Nobody among the crew and passengers was injured in the incident.

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Bus hijacking in Japan

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken in the early hours of May 12, 2014, shows an intercity bus that was hijacked the previous night by a man holding scissors in Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The 45-year-old hijacker was arrested in Ebino in the prefecture in the early hours of May 12. Nobody among the crew and passengers was injured in the incident.

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Boy arrested for bus hijacking

NAGOYA, Japan - Police officers investigate after a boy was arrested for hijacking a bus operated JR Tokai Bus Co. at Miai parking area on the Tomei Expressway in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture, on July 16. The boy, who was in possession of two knives, told the police he was a 14-year-old second grader at a junior high school in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture.

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Film commissions help Japan's moviemakers

SAPPORO, Japan - A scene of the movie, ''Koshonin Mashita Masayoshi'' (Negotiator Masayoshi Mashita), featuring the hijacking of a state-of-the-art Tokyo subway test car, is shot on location at Oodori Station of the Sapporo City Subway in Sapporo's Chuo Ward on Jan. 11. The movie will be shown nationwide in May.

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3 Japanese airlines urged to reexamine security measures

TOKYO, Japan - Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Chikage Ogi (L) delivers papers to Japan Airlines President Isao Kaneko on Nov. 13, 2001, instructing Japan's three major airlines to urgently reexamine their compliance with measures to prevent airline accidents, hijacking and terrorism incidents. Standing behind Kaneko are representatives of All Nippon Airways and Japan Air System.

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Hijackers' daughters arrive in Japan

NARITA, Japan - Three daughters of former Red Army Faction members, who hijacked a Japan Airlines (JAL) plane in 1970 and forced it to fly to North Korea, sit for a news conference after their arrival at Narita airport May 15. (From L to R) Azumi Tanaka, 22, Asaka Tamiya, 22, and Ritsuko Konishi, 23. On the flight to Narita, Tamiya, in an interview with Kyodo News, described the hijacking committed by her father and other members of the radical group as ''senseless'' and ''wrong.''

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Hijackers' daughters leave N. Korea for Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Three daughters of former Red Army Faction cadres are seen in photo taken by a supporter in March in Pyongyang. Shown are Asaka Tamiya (L), 22, daughter of Takamaro Tamiya, deceased leader of the hijackers' group; Azumi Tanaka (C), 22, daughter of Yoshimi Tanaka; and Ritsuko Konishi, 23, daughter of Takahiro Konishi. The three daughters, whose fathers defected to North Korea after hijacking a Japan Airlines plane in 1970, left Pyongyang on May 15 for Japan via China.

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Hankyu President Takata reports on release of hostages

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiko Takata, president of Hankyu Express International Co., meets the press at the company's Tokyo office in Minato Ward on Nov. 5 after a group of Japanese tourists was freed unharmed on Nov. 4. Thirty-three Japanese were released after a nearly eight-hour hijacking ordeal in Greece.

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Bus hijacking suspect sent to Hiroshima family court

HIGASHI-HIROSHIMA, Japan - A van transports a 17-year-old suspected of hijacking a bus and killing one of its passengers in early May from Saijo Police Station in the city of Higashi-Hiroshima to the Hiroshima Family Court June 5. Prosecutors sent the youth to the family court in line with the Juvenile Law, but asked the court to allow them to prosecute the case in district court and try the suspect under the Code of Criminal Procedure.

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17-yr-old busjacker sent to prosecutors

HIGASHI-HIROSHIMA, Japan - The photo shows a van believed to be carrying a 17-year-old busjacker from Saijo Police Station in Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, on May 5. The boy was sent to prosecutors in connection with the May 3 hijacking of an expressway bus that resulted in the death of a passenger and injuries to at least four others. The boy, whose identity is being withheld since he is a minor, had admitted to the charges but refused to give investigators a motive for the incident, according to police.

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Haneda blocks passageway used in hijacking

TOKYO, Japan - A new gateway is installed at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Sept. 28, closing off a security breach that a knife-wielding man used last July to bypass security checks before hijacking an All Nippon Airways passenger plane and killing the captain. A 29-year-old man hijacked the Boeing 747 on July 23, and stabbed Naoyuki Nagashima, 51, to death in the cockpit with a kitchen knife.

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Airlines to work out common security guidelines

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows presidents and representatives of Japan's 11 major airlines, who on Aug. 2 are ordered by Transport Minister Jiro Kawasaki to tighten security at airports and on airliners in the wake of the July 23 hijacking of an All Nippon Airways jumbo jet. The jet's captain, Naoyuki Nagashima, was stabbed to death by a 28-year-old, knife-wielding hijacker.

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Man sent warning letters before hijacking ANA jumbo

TOKYO, Japan - The 28-year-old man who on July 23 hijacked an All Nippon Airways (ANA) jumbo jet sent letters in mid-June to the Transport Ministry, the Metropolitan Police Department, airline and airport management companies, and news organizations warning of lax security at Tokyo's Haneda airport, from which the plane departed. The photo shows a copy of his letter received by Kyodo News. The name and address of the hijacker are being withheld by police.

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EgyptAir to resume flights to Moscow

STORY: EgyptAir to resume flights to Moscow DATELINE: April 13, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:55 LOCATION: Cairo CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the airport STORYLINE: Egypt's flag carrier EgyptAir said on Tuesday it will resume its flights to the Russian capital of Moscow from Friday. "EgyptAir will resume its direct flights between Cairo and Moscow, one daily, number MS729-MS730, on board of Airlines Boeing B737-800," EgyptAir said in a statement. EgyptAir canceled last month all flights to Moscow due to problems with European flight insurance amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict and the European sanctions against Russia. On Monday, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi signed a law that allows the finance minister to provide EgyptAir with an insurance guarantee that covers risks including wars or hijacking during flights to and from Russian airports. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Cairo. (XHTV)

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3 Japanese airlines urged to reexamine security measures

TOKYO, Japan - Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Chikage Ogi (L) delivers papers to Japan Airlines President Isao Kaneko on Nov. 13, 2001, instructing Japan's three major airlines to urgently reexamine their compliance with measures to prevent airline accidents, hijacking and terrorism incidents. Standing behind Kaneko are representatives of All Nippon Airways and Japan Air System.

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Red Army hijacker may have been killed by colleagues

TOKYO, Japan - An internationally wanted Japanese terrorist leader has suggested one of the nine Red Army faction members who defected to North Korea after hijacking a plane in 1970 was killed by fellow hijackers, supporters of the leader say July 20 in Tokyo. Fusako Shigenobu, the 53-year-old leader of the Japanese Red Army she founded in 1971, said Takeshi Okamoto (file photo), who reportedly died around 1988, was ''purged just as with the case of the United Red Army,'' the supporters tell Kyodo News.

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Red Army hijacker may have been killed by colleagues

TOKYO, Japan - An internationally wanted Japanese terrorist leader has suggested one of the nine Red Army faction members who defected to North Korea after hijacking a plane in 1970 was killed by fellow hijackers, supporters of the leader say July 20 in Tokyo. Fusako Shigenobu, the 53-year-old leader of the Japanese Red Army she founded in 1971, said Takeshi Okamoto (file photo), who reportedly died around 1988, was ''purged just as with the case of the United Red Army,'' the supporters tell Kyodo News.

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Airlines to work out common security guidelines

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows presidents and representatives of Japan's 11 major airlines, who on Aug. 2 are ordered by Transport Minister Jiro Kawasaki to tighten security at airports and on airliners in the wake of the July 23 hijacking of an All Nippon Airways jumbo jet. The jet's captain, Naoyuki Nagashima, was stabbed to death by a 28-year-old, knife-wielding hijacker.

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Airlines to work out common security guidelines

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows presidents and representatives of Japan's 11 major airlines, who on Aug. 2 are ordered by Transport Minister Jiro Kawasaki to tighten security at airports and on airliners in the wake of the July 23 hijacking of an All Nippon Airways jumbo jet. The jet's captain, Naoyuki Nagashima, was stabbed to death by a 28-year-old, knife-wielding hijacker.

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Obuchi attends funeral of slain ANA captain

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi joins palms together in player July 29 at a wake for Naoyuki Nagashima, the captain slain in the July 23 hijacking of an All Nippon Airways (ANA) jumbo jet.

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Hijackers' daughters arrive in Japan

NARITA, Japan - Three daughters of former Red Army Faction members, who hijacked a Japan Airlines (JAL) plane in 1970 and forced it to fly to North Korea, sit for a news conference after their arrival at Narita airport May 15. (From L to R) Azumi Tanaka, 22, Asaka Tamiya, 22, and Ritsuko Konishi, 23. On the flight to Narita, Tamiya, in an interview with Kyodo News, described the hijacking committed by her father and other members of the radical group as ''senseless'' and ''wrong.''

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Yuki in her father's arms arrives at grandparent's home

FUKUOKA, Japan - Yuki Ishibashi, 6, is carried in her father's arms in front of her grandparents' home in Fukuoka on May 5, one day after she was rescued safely by riot police from a bus hijacked in southwestern Japan on May 3. The bus hijacking resulted in the death of one passenger and injuries to at least four others. Police say a 17-year-old boy they arrested at the scene was the hijacker.

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17-yr-old busjacker sent to prosecutors

HIGASHI-HIROSHIMA, Japan - The photo shows a van believed to be carrying a 17-year-old busjacker from Saijo Police Station in Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, on May 5. The boy was sent to prosecutors in connection with the May 3 hijacking of an expressway bus that resulted in the death of a passenger and injuries to at least four others. The boy, whose identity is being withheld since he is a minor, had admitted to the charges but refused to give investigators a motive for the incident, according to police.

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UNITED 93

UNITED 93 [US / BR / FR 2006] BECKY LONDON, TIM O'ROURKE Date: 2006

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RAID ON ENTEBBE

RAID ON ENTEBBE EDDIE CONSTANTINE, HORST BUCHHOLZ Date: 1976

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1977, Japan.

The 1977 compilation of the Japan-Soviet 200 nautical mile problem. Children chase supercars. Mt. Usu eruption. Suguru Egawa refuses to join the Crown. Illustrations of a map of the 200 nautical mile area, a fishing boat in the sea, a Soviet ship, a meeting of party leaders, an illustration of a map of the four northern islands, a Japan-Soviet fishery agreement being exchanged, housewives arranging for food to be shipped directly from its place of origin, a pawn shop thriving, a supercar display event, happy children, a tardiness chart imitating a timetable, a long A long telephone receiver, a housewife using a gas stove for toilet gas, the eruption of Mount Usu, volcanic ash falling on the city, a home run by Oh, pitching by Taku Egawa, six Japanese Army personnel allowed to leave prison after the Japan Airlines hijacking incident, people resisting the Narita Airport issue and the Sanrizuka struggle. date unknown Date of shooting unknown, Release date: December 23, 1977.

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Anti-piracy in Manila Bay

MANILA, Philippines -- A multilateral anti-piracy naval exercise in action off Manila on March 7, with a Japanese ship used as target for hijacking. (Kyodo)

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JAL hijackers in N. Korea send tweets

Editor Reinin Shiino (C, back) and supporters of former Red Army Faction members, responsible for hijacking a JAL flight in 1970, hold a meeting in Tokyo on Jan. 20, 2015. They have been sending out tweets e-mailed from the members, now living in North Korea, about once a month since October 2014. There are some 4,000 Twitter followers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese Red Army member Shirosaki

File photo taken in October 1977 shows Tsutomu Shirosaki (C), a Japanese Red Army member, after being released from prison along with other radicals in exchange for hostages taken by the group in the hijacking of a Japan Airlines jetliner in the Bangladesh capital of Dhaka. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Boy arrested for bus hijacking

NAGOYA, Japan - Police officers investigate after a boy was arrested for hijacking a bus operated JR Tokai Bus Co. at Miai parking area on the Tomei Expressway in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture, on July 16. The boy, who was in possession of two knives, told the police he was a 14-year-old second grader at a junior high school in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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1970 JAL hijacker freed from prison due to illness

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshimi Tanaka, 58, who is serving a 12-year prison term for taking part in the hijacking of Japan Airlines flight in 1970, arrives at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Dec. 15 to enter a hospital in Chiba Prefecture after being released from the Osaka prison hospital. The Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office is believed to have decided to suspend the sentence on Tanaka apparently finding his illness too serious to be treated in prison. (Kyodo)

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1970 JAL hijacker Tanaka dies due to illness

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshimi Tanaka (file photo taken in June, 2000), a former radical group member involved in the 1970 hijacking of a Japan Airlines jet, dies of liver cancer on Jan. 1 at a hospital in Chiba Prefecture after being released from prison last month due to the illness. He was 58. (Kyodo)

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Haneda blocks passageway used in hijacking

TOKYO, Japan - A new gateway is installed at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Sept. 28, closing off a security breach that a knife-wielding man used last July to bypass security checks before hijacking an All Nippon Airways passenger plane and killing the captain. A 29-year-old man hijacked the Boeing 747 on July 23, and stabbed Naoyuki Nagashima, 51, to death in the cockpit with a kitchen knife.

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Ex-Red Army Faction member gets 12 yrs for 1970 JAL hijacking

TOKYO, Japan - The Tokyo District Court on Feb. 14 sentenced former Red Army Faction member Yoshimi Tanaka (file photo) to a 12-year jail term for his involvement in the 1970 hijacking of a Japan Airlines plane. Tanaka and eight other Red Army Faction members hijacked the Boeing 727 on March 31, 1970, after it left Tokyo bound for Fukuoka, southwestern Japan.

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Ex-Japan Red Army member's life sentence to stand

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows former Japanese Red Army member Jun Nishikawa. Japan's Supreme Court said on Sept. 13, 2011, it has turned down an appeal by Nishikawa against his sentence of life imprisonment for his involvement in the 1977 hijacking of a Japan Airlines plane and the 1974 seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague. (Kyodo)

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