Governments and airlines seeking to reduce the threat of airplane hijackings by terrorists have a wide range of security technologies to choose from.

In 1973, the elite federal police group known as GSG-9, or Grenzschutzgruppe-9, was set up to respond to airplane hijackings and other acts of terror.

In addition, the aviation agency did not change its traditional assumptions that airplane hijackings were not suicide missions.

Similar units have been dispatched to the sites of airplane hijackings.

He was responsible for organizing several civilian airplane hijackings in support of the Palestinian cause in the 1960s and 1970s.

Compared with a record 40 airplane hijackings in 1969, there has been only one attempted hijacking in the last two years, and it failed.

Others around the world, including the first airplane hijackings.

The sketches in the show lampooned yuppie culture, health food, the Reagan Administration, airplane hijackings and psychotherapy.

Because of that case, the Federal death penalty now applies in only two cases - for drug-related murders and airplane hijackings.

Those terrorists, it was said, spoke urgently about an attack that would be even bigger than the Sept. 11 airplane hijackings.