Definition of "skyjacking" []

• Present participle of skyjack. (verb)
• The kidnapping of the passengers of an airplane by threat of force. The hijacking an airplane, especially in flight. (noun)

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• "Operation Entebbe was the turning point, after which the world woke up and increased its security to the point where the word "skyjacking" has been nearly forgotten within the Western world."
• "When you're close to a ship you can perform a "skyjacking" and hop onto the aircraft to try and bust in, but the process of doing this is a drawn out, repetitive affair."
• ""skyjacking," and airport security is on a scale unimagined in 1971."