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Article: Air France hijack: complicity theory gains ground. (Dec. 1994 plot to hijack Air Inter flight in Algeria)
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- African Business
- Article date:
- March 1, 1995
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African Business Aviation Correspondent, Paul Michaud discloses that a second hijack had been on the same day as the Air France hijack of last December. Was there a criminal complicity between the hijackers and airport officials? How has this disclosure affected French and Algerian relations?
It seems that the French carrier, Air Inter, which had only recently begun a daily flight between Marseille and Algiers, was apparently the target of a second hijacking attempt from the same airport and on the same day as the Air France hijack.
On December 24, an Air France Airbus A300 was hijacked by Islamic militants from the Houari Boumedienne airport, Algiers. The ...
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