skyjack
- v subject an aircraft to air piracy
the plane was skyjacked to Uzbekistan
- With those words, the first Palestinian skyjack of 1973 was under way.
- The only possible justification for mass skyjack searches is to look for weapons, in order to protect the passengers and airline property from the dangers inherent in aircraft .
- Though the action was scarcely as spectacular as the daring rescue of 101 skyjack hostages from Uganda's Entebbe Airport, Israel last week won another round on hostile territory .