Air France Flight 8969 hijack 1994
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Basically the story goes like this.
Air France conducts flights to Algeria from Paris.The crew and pilots are volunteers as i have read, reason being is Algeria was in a state of civil war during that time.An Islamic political party wanted to take control over Algeria and transform it into an Islamic state, by hook or by crook.
The 4 hijackers disguised as presidential police and they entered the plane. They began inspecting the passengers' passports and demanded that the passengers close all of the window shutters and empty their personal belongings into black plastic bags. After "inspecting", they refused to leave the plane and immediately revealed themselves as not real policemen, but hijackers. Twenty five year old Abdul Abdullah Yahia and the other three members of the Armed Islamic Group (Groupe Islamique Armé, or GIA) brandished their AK-47 and Uzi automatic weapons and demanded cooperation from the 220 passengers and 12 flight crew.
At 14:00, one of the hijackers discovered that there was an Algerian policeman onboard the flight and quickly brought him to the attention of Yahia. The hijackers dragged the passenger up to the front of the passenger compartment and shot him in the back of the head. A few minutes later the hijackers made contact with the control tower and demanded that the plane be allowed to take off. After their initial request was not met, they dumped the body of the Algerian police officer onto the runway and stated that if their demands were not immediately met, they would execute another hostage.
Philippe Legorjus, the Chief Security consultant for Air France and former team leader of the GIGN, was on the phone with the commander of the Algerian Army's commando force, which had the Airbus A300 surrounded. The hijackers wanted the Algerian Army to remove the mobile stairway and tire chocks to allow them to take off, but the Algerians were not going to give in very easily. A crisis management team assembled in Paris at the corporate headquarters of Air France decided that the best choice was to let the plane take off toward France, to allow the GIGN to intervene.
French Prime Minister Édouard Balladur asked that the women and children be released in return for allowing the aircraft to fly to Paris. The GIA agreed to these terms and released 63 passengers. However when the order was given to the Algerian colonel to have his men remove the staircase and chocks, he refused. The enraged hijackers executed a Vietnamese diplomat and threw his body onto the runway. An Air France flight attendant on duty at the time later recounted that the hijackers had mistaken him as a "Buddhist with diplomas" instead of a diplomat who happened to be a Buddhist, and he had also made the further mistake of taking several bottles of wine with him when the terrorists summoned him.
The negotiations lasted throughout Christmas Day, but remained at a stalemate between the Algerian elite commandos surrounding the aircraft, and the Algerian and French governments, who wanted a GIGN unit to assist the Algerian Elite Commandos. At 21:30 Christmas night, a young employee of the French embassy came on the radio and said that the hijackers were going to kill him if they didn't let the plane take off in thirty minutes. Still at a standstill with the Algerian colonel, the hijackers kept their word and at 22:00 they shot the employee in the head and dumped him out. The GIA stated that they were going to kill one person every half hour until the plane was allowed to fly to Paris.
During the intense standoff, authorities learned that the aircraft was laden with more than twenty sticks of dynamite. Captain Denis Favier of the French GIGN put together a plan to storm the plane and kill the hijackers with minimum loss of life to the passengers. The team trained on an identical French Airbus until they were confident that they could implement their attempts on Flight 8969. After leaving, the Airbus containing the hostage rescue teams flew to Algiers but was not given clearance to land. After circling for more than two hours, the aircraft was diverted to land in Spain to await further instructions.
After nearly forty hours of intense negotiations and the loss of three lives, the Algerian Colonel gave in and removed the mobile staircase and wheel chocks at 02:00 the morning of December 26th. The negotiation team chose to divert the flight to Marseille International Airport, some five hundred miles south of Paris. Air traffic controllers in the tower secretly communicated to the crew of Flight 8969 to tell the hijackers that they didn't have enough fuel to make it all the way to Paris; the plane had also used up too much fuel by running its generators during the standoff in Algiers.
The French special forces left Spain and landed just twenty minutes before 8969 touched down at Marseille-Marignane Airport, on the coast of France, just after 03:30. Tired from the two day stand off, the hijackers maintained radio silence until late morning when the hijackers demand they receive nearly 27 tons of fuel; considerably more than the 9 needed to make the five hundred mile flight to Paris. It was suspected that the hijackers wanted as much fuel as possible in order to make the Airbus into a flying bomb; the concern was that GIA planned to either fly the plane into the Eiffel Tower in Paris, or simply blow it up over the city.
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Err...and the point of your thread is?
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This is a good example why too much creatine is bad for you.
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Please dont open your trap without even knowing what you are talking about.Everyone who eats meat eats creatine.And no i dont take any supplements.And stick to the topic, if you wanna flame me.Do it through PM.Originally posted by LyonK:This is a good example why too much creatine is bad for you.
Just another smart aleck who is so critical of things he has not even ventured into before.
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IMHO, the Algerian commandos wasted too much time already.
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Simon,but we already know this already...
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I consider protein powder as supplements. Many people do. Simon, I find you really hot-tempered sometimes.Originally posted by Simon Dean:Please dont open your trap without even knowing what you are talking about.Everyone who eats meat eats creatine.And no i dont take any supplements.And stick to the topic, if you wanna flame me.Do it through PM.
Just another smart aleck who is so critical of things he has not even ventured into before.
To LyonK, there are researches that show that creatine helps the brain better. -
But i dont take ANY of them.Originally posted by eagle:I consider protein powder as supplements. Many people do. Simon, I find you really hot-tempered sometimes.
To LyonK, there are researches that show that creatine helps the brain better. -
Well then, you shouldOriginally posted by Simon Dean:But i dont take ANY of them.
Originally posted by eagle:To LyonK, there are researches that show that creatine helps the brain better. -
Its got to do with brain damage by an injury.Lyonk stop embarassing yourself..
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create this thread for fuck?
knowing this is MN..confirm this topic existed before -
Then you came here for f*ckOriginally posted by Master -_-:create this thread for fuck?
knowing this is MN..confirm this topic existed before -
whats f*ck?Originally posted by Simon Dean:Then you came here for f*ck
enlighten more about ur vast military knowledge please..i'm eager -
Errm.. TS should at least clarify what he wants out of this thread... to discuss what went wrong or what went right? or want to share the story?
As for other people, i guess we should contribute positively to any thread.
As for the topic at hand, ya. this was the case if i am not wrong where the seige ended with GIGN storming the plane and a sniper was placed to neutralise the threat at the c-ockpit. -
Are you saying you have brain damage?Originally posted by Simon Dean:Its got to do with brain damage by an injury.Lyonk stop embarassing yourself..
Ahh..my bad. I should have realised it by what you first posted before you edited it.
I do not like picking on the disabled or retarded
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Talk about your lazy self, dont even bother finding out and take it as a generic term..Originally posted by LyonK:Are you saying you have brain damage?
Ahh..my bad. I should have realised it by what you first posted before you edited it.
I do not like picking on the disabled or retarded -
Things i find funny about this thread..
1. Probably discussed before
2. WTF has creatine got to do with this?
3. What's the point of arguing on the net?...u get multiple orgasms arh? -
1) I dunnoOriginally posted by Rockhound:Things i find funny about this thread..
1. Probably discussed before
2. WTF has creatine got to do with this?
3. What's the point of arguing on the net?...u get multiple orgasms arh?
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Why dont you ask the person who brought it in.Originally posted by Rockhound:Things i find funny about this thread..
1. Probably discussed before
2. WTF has creatine got to do with this?
3. What's the point of arguing on the net?...u get multiple orgasms arh? -
more importantly.. let's cool down and carry on with topic.Originally posted by Simon Dean:Why dont you ask the person who brought it in. -
Err...what topic?Originally posted by Ponders:more importantly.. let's cool down and carry on with topic. -
When I see a topic by Simon Dean, I know something is burning.
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hmm...I suppose if GIA took creative they would be faster/stronger.