Example sentences for: hijackings

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

  • That nine minutes' notice before impact was the most the military would receive of any of the four hijackings.

  • The final layer, security on board commercial aircraft, was not designed to counter suicide hijackings.

  • Though Logan was selected for two of the hijackings (as were both American and United Airlines), we found no evidence that the terrorists targeted particular airports or airlines.

  • FAA controllers at Boston Center, which had tracked the first two hijackings, requested at 9:07 that Herndon Command Center "get messages to airborne aircraft to increase security for the cockpit."

  • A 1994 FAA assessment of the threat to civil aviation in the United States stated that "system vulnerabilities also exist with respect to hijackings . . . aircraft can be hijacked with either fake weapons or hoax explosive devices.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast