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Air France Flight 8969
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Claude Burgniard
The French government immediately put their elite counter-terrorism unit GIGN on standby.
The men hijacked the aircraft because, as a part of the national airline Air France, it was a symbol of France, which they viewed as infidel foreign invaders.
Hijacking
a flight attendant, remember noticing that the police were armed and one hijacker had dynamite showing; she considered this as unusual as the Algerian police were not usually armed while performing checks.
December 24th 1994
Abdul Abdullah Yahia
Armed Islamic Group
Groupe Islamique Armé, or GIA
- Dressed as Algerian Police men
at 1717 hours, three-eight man teams went into action. They used 3 mobile ramps to approach the aircraft, however the terrorists spotted them and started to fire.
Air France Flight 8969
- December 24th 1994
- Had air algerie logo on them
- 11:15am
Airbus A300 aircraft
- Houari Boumediene Airport, Algeria
Zahida Kakachi
. Zahida Kakachi, a passenger, recalled seeing a group of Algerian special forces, known as "ninjas," outside the aircraft.
Paris
Algeria
AK-47 Rifle
- December 26 1994
UZI submachine guns
- the plane left Algeria and headed for France
- on the same day, hijacked aircraft safely arrived in Marseilles
Homemade hand grenades
2 sticks of 10 dynamite packs
- total of 220 people on board
- all 4 terrorists were killed
- 3 passengers were executed
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