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Balgairtoday at 12:14 AM1 replyview on HN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_hijackings

Just greping for 'Israel' or 'Palestine' gives 13 incidents, the latest occurring in 2000.

It's a quite large share of the hijackings on the list, much more so that I'd have imagined de novo.

Reading through a few of them, most of the hijackers had a fair bit of mental instability (duh?). So, I could totally see them naming a bluetooth something crazy if they had them those days.

Also, most of the incidents ended up being fairly well handled and there weren't many casualties. But if I were a pilot and I were getting paid regardless of turning the plane around or dealing with a possibly fatal multi-day saga, I'd likely just turn the plane around too.


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punkyblewstertoday at 12:35 AM

Let's get real. This was a pilot using authority granted to them for security purposes to punish somebody whose politics they disliked.

The pilot should be fired effective immediately.

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