hijacking

The first aircraft hijacking in Greece took place during the Civil War on September 12th, 1948 when six pro-communist students who wanted passage to Yugoslavia, hijacked a plane that was traveling from Athens to Thessaloniki. Alexandros Koufoudakis, 21, Dimitrios Koufoudakis, 23,...

The European Union urged EU-based airlines to avoid Belarus's airspace on Monday after the country diverted a flight from Athens to Vilnius.

Seven suspects were detained late on Sunday after a suspected hijacking involving stowaways on a Greek-owned tanker near the Isle of Wight off the English southern coast. According to the BBC, UK special forces completed the operation in a swift...

The man who hijacked an EgyptAir plane that landed in Cyprus on Tuesday morning is in the hands of local authorities, according to the Cypriot Foreign Ministry. The plane took off from Alexandria, it was hijacked en route to Cairo,...

The hijacking that diverted an EgyptAir flight to Cyprus and threatened passenger lives, it turns out is a desperate move of a man to contact his Cypriot ex-wife. The plane took off from Alexandria, it was hijacked and landed at...

Passengers flying from Thessaloniki to Athens were shocked by an "unexpected hijacking" that scared them in the beginning, but finally made them smile! Two travelers suddenly stood up from their seats and started singing arias from La Traviatta, surprising their fellow passengers...

The Angolan navy denied the hijacking of the Greek oil tanker, Kerala, on January 18, reporting that the owner company had faked the pirate attack. Greece-based Dynacom, owners of the Liberian-flagged tanker MT Kerala said they had contacted its crew who reported...

Eva Antoniou, a 20-year-old Greek student at Latrobe University of Melbourne and her friend, Olivia Gallo, were robbed in Mexico, when two armed men attacked the bus they were traveling by, reports said. The young women were backpacking across the...