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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of skyjack.

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Examples

  • Plane after plane had been "skyjacked" within the world and too many gave into the demands of the terrorists, encouraging them to attempt the same stunt time and time again.

    HASBARA: 31rst Anniversary of The Great Entebbe Rescue! MaksimSmelchak 2007

  • They have variously claimed that they shot it down or remotely skyjacked it before landing the craft in one piece.

    U.S. Says Drone Crashed, Refuting Iran's Claim Siobhan Gorman 2011

  • After being skyjacked (along with comely Dale Arden) to the planet Mongo, Flash (Sam Jones) learns that its merciless ruler, Emperor Ming (Max von Sydow), plans to destroy Earth and take Dale as his concubine.

    31 Days: Tricks and Treats: Day 21: Morning Prof. Ravensdeath 2008

  • Wasn't Entebbe where the Iraelis pulled off a brilliant raid of a skyjacked plane?

    Do We Need More Diane Abbotts? 2007

  • Before that, we had people in the Symbionese Liberation Army and the Italian Red Guard who also used violence and death to acheive some stupid aims, not to mention those strange people who skyjacked airplanes to cuba in the 70s.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Three-Year-Olds and Airport Security: 2007

  • At this very moment, a large number of passengers aboard the Cuban Antinoch (ph) 24 passenger plane that was skyjacked last night are getting off the plane.

    CNN Transcript Apr 1, 2003 2003

  • The pilot of the plane radioed in that he was being skyjacked by a man carrying two hand grenades.

    CNN Transcript Apr 1, 2003 2003

  • It was the only skyjacked plane that had four, not five, hijackers.

    CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2001 2001

  • A retired law enforcement official reportedly tipped the FBI to a connection between a man who died a decade ago and the man known as D.B. Cooper, who leaped from a jetliner he skyjacked in 1971.

    News - chicagotribune.com 2011

  • The deceased man the FBI is investigating in the D.B. Cooper case was a surveyor whose training might have enabled him to scout locations to parachute from the skyjacked Boeing 727.

    The Seattle Times 2011

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