Example sentences for: hijacked

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

  • United 175 was hijacked between 8:42 and 8:46, and awareness of that hijacking began to spread after 8:51.

  • The Indian Airlines plane hijacked Friday en route to New Delhi from Katmandu remained idle in southern Afghanistan yesterday, while hijackers issued demands.

  • The Langley fighters were not scrambled in response to United 93; NORAD did not have 47 minutes to intercept the flight; NORAD did not even know the plane was hijacked until after it had crashed.

  • The first indication that the NORAD air defenders had of the second hijacked aircraft, United 175, came in a phone call from New York Center to NEADS at 9:03.

  • Three men hijacked an Ethiopian airliner and forced an emergency landing in the ocean that killed nearly two-thirds of the 175 people on board.


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