Air France Flight 8969

When

26 Dec 1994

Kind

Event

Coordinates

43.44° N, 5.21° E

Description

Raid of Air France Flight 8969: The Hijacked Air France aircraft is flown to Marseille and stormed by the GIGN, 4 hijackers and 3 others were killed.

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Air France Flight 8969.

1994 aircraft hijacking

Air France Flight 8969 was an Air France Airbus A300 flight that was hijacked on 24 December 1994 at Houari Boumediene Airport, Algiers. The militants murdered three passengers and their intention was either to detonate the aircraft over the Eiffel Tower or the Tour Montparnasse in Paris.

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• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “un commando du GIA détourne un avion qui s'était envolé d'Alger, avec pour dessein de le faire s'écraser sur la tour Eiffel”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “En Argelia, cuatro secuestradores argelinos al servicio de la GIA secuestra el vuelo 8969 de Air France: asesinan a tres pasajeros y los arrojan a la pista”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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