Example sentences for: hijack

How can you use “hijack” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • FAA guidance to controllers on hijack procedures assumed that the aircraft pilot would notify the controller via radio or by"squawking"a transponder code of "7500"-the universal code for a hijack in progress.

  • The same source late last month said that Bin Ladin might implement plans to hijack US aircraft before the beginning of Ramadan on 20 December and that two members of the operational team had evaded security checks during a recent trial run at an unidentified New York airport.

  • One, a December 4 Presidential Daily Briefing for President Clinton (reprinted in chapter 4), brought the focus back to more traditional hostage taking; it reported Bin Ladin's involvement in planning a hijack operation to free prisoners such as the "Blind Sheikh," Omar Abdel Rahman.

  • The deputy director for operations mentioned the Delta flight and concluded that "that would be the fourth possible hijack."

  • The FBI agent who handled the case in conjunction with the INS representative on the Minneapolis Joint Terrorism Task Force suspected that Moussaoui might be planning to hijack a plane.


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