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▪ I. skyjack, v.|ˈskaɪdʒæk|
Also sky-jack.
[f. sky n.1 + hijack v.]
trans. To hijack (an aeroplane). Also const. to (a destination).
1961N.Y. Mirror 10 Aug. 1 (heading) Pan Am Jet skyjacked to Havana. 1968Tel. (Brisbane) 13 Mar. 24/7 Over the years scores of light planes, in addition to larger passenger airliners, have been skyjacked and flown to Cuba. 1970Time 12 Oct. 38/3 Aboard the plane was Leila Khaled, 24, the Palestinian guerrilla who attempted to skyjack an El Al airliner over Britain last month. 1971Daily Tel. 1 Feb. 20/3 Sentence of death on a Lithuanian..for trying to skyjack a Soviet airliner to Sweden, has been commuted. 1977Whitaker's Almanack 1978 604/2 A Russian engineer who skyjacked a Soviet airliner surrendered to Swedish police when the plane landed at Stockholm.
Hence ˈskyjacked ppl. a., ˈskyjacking vbl. n.
1961N.Y. Mirror 5 Aug. 3 (heading) Rush stiff sky⁓jacking law. 1969Daily Tel. 1 Nov. 1/1 All air traffic was warned..to avoid the sky-jacked airliner as special preparations were made at Shannon Airport to receive the Trans-World airliner. 1977D. E. Westlake Nobody's Perfect (1978) 227 Listen to this. We fake a skyjacking, but what we really do—.
▪ II. skyjack, n.|ˈskaɪdʒæk|
[f. the vb.]
An instance of skyjacking.
1968Tel. (Brisbane) 13 Mar. 24/7 In the third skyjack in 16 days, a U.S. National Airlines DC8 with 59 people aboard landed at Havana, Cuba, today. 1969Cavalier Daily (Univ. Va.) 5 Feb., United Airlines Tuesday reported an unsuccessful skyjack attempt. 1975A. Osmond Saladin! i. v. 39 The wars and the riots, the skyjacks and terrorists' bombs. 1978R. Jansson News Caper iv. 46 This is a skyjack. We have a hostage at either end of the plane. |