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Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961

Index Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961, a Boeing 767-200ER, was hijacked on 23 November 1996, en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi on an Addis Ababa–Nairobi–Brazzaville–Lagos–Abidjan service, by three Ethiopians seeking asylum in Australia. [1]

72 relations: Abidjan, Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa Bole International Airport, Air Accidents Investigation Branch, Air Tanzania, Air Transat Flight 236, Aircraft hijacking, Aircraft registration, Aircrew, Airdisaster.com, Alcohol intoxication, Associated Press, Asylum in Australia, Boeing 767, Brazzaville, Brown University, Central Intelligence Agency, CNN, Cockpit, Comoro Islands, Comoros, Coordinated Universal Time, Coral reef, Emergency landing, Ethiopian Airlines, Ethiopian Airlines accidents and incidents, Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority, Félix-Houphouët-Boigny International Airport, Federal Aviation Administration, Flight International, Flightglobal, Frankfurt Airport, Franklin Huddle, Fuel starvation, FYI (U.S. TV network), Gimli Glider, Grande Comore, I Survived..., Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Kenya, Lagos, Leul Abate, Liquor, List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft, List of airline flights that required gliding, List of Mayday episodes, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Madagascar, Maya-Maya Airport, Mayday (Canadian TV series), ..., Minnesota Daily, Mitsamiouli, Mohamed Amin, Moroni, Comoros, Mumbai, Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Nairobi, Personal flotation device, Pilot in command, Pratt & Whitney JT9D, Prince Said Ibrahim International Airport, Réunion, Republic of the Congo, Safari, Scuba set, Serial code, The Independent, The New York Times, Time (magazine), US Airways Flight 1549, Water landing, 1990 Guangzhou Baiyun airport collisions. Expand index (22 more) »

Abidjan

Abidjan is the economic capital of Côte d'Ivoire and is one of the most populous French-speaking cities in Africa.

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Addis Ababa

Addis Ababa (አዲስ አበባ,, "new flower"; or Addis Abeba (the spelling used by the official Ethiopian Mapping Authority); Finfinne "natural spring") is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia.

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Addis Ababa Bole International Airport

Addis Ababa Bole International Airport based the city of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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Air Accidents Investigation Branch

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) investigates civil aircraft accidents and serious incidents within the United Kingdom, its overseas territories and crown dependencies.

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Air Tanzania

Air Tanzania Company Limited (ATCL) (Kampuni ya Ndege ya Tanzania) is the flag carrier airline of Tanzania based in Dar es Salaam with its hub at Julius Nyerere International Airport.

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Air Transat Flight 236

Air Transat Flight 236 was a transatlantic flight bound for Lisbon, Portugal, from Toronto, Canada, that lost all engine power while flying over the Atlantic Ocean on August 24, 2001.

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Aircraft hijacking

Aircraft hijacking (also air piracy or aircraft piracy, especially within the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States and in the US state of Mississippi, and as skyjacking in some nations) is the unlawful seizure of an aircraft by an individual or a group.

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Aircraft registration

Every civil aircraft must be marked prominently on its exterior by an alphanumeric string, indicating its country of registration and its unique serial number.

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Aircrew

Aircrew, also called flight crew, are personnel who operate an aircraft while in flight.

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Airdisaster.com

AirDisaster.com (colloquially referred to as AD.com) was a website devoted to accidents and incidents on commercial airliners.

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Alcohol intoxication

Alcohol intoxication, also known as drunkenness or alcohol poisoning, is negative behavior and physical effects due to the recent drinking of ethanol (alcohol).

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Asylum in Australia

Asylum in Australia is governed by statutes and Government policies which seek to implement Australia's obligations under the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, to which Australia is a party.

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Boeing 767

The Boeing 767 is a mid- to large-size, mid- to long-range, wide-body twin-engine jet airliner built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

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Brazzaville

Brazzaville is the capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo and is on the north side of the Congo River, opposite Kinshasa.

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Brown University

Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States.

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Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT).

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.

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Cockpit

A cockpit or flight deck is the area, usually near the front of an aircraft or spacecraft, from which a pilot controls the aircraft.

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Comoro Islands

The Comoro Islands or Comoros (Shikomori Komori; جزر القمر, Juzur al-Qamar; French Les Comores) form an archipelago of volcanic islands situated off the south-east coast of Africa, to the east of Mozambique and north-west of Madagascar.

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Comoros

The Comoros (جزر القمر), officially the Union of the Comoros (Comorian: Udzima wa Komori, Union des Comores, الاتحاد القمري), is a sovereign archipelago island nation in the Indian Ocean located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel off the eastern coast of Africa between northeastern Mozambique and northwestern Madagascar.

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Coordinated Universal Time

No description.

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Coral reef

Coral reefs are diverse underwater ecosystems held together by calcium carbonate structures secreted by corals.

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Emergency landing

An emergency landing is a prioritised landing made by an aircraft in response to an emergency containing an imminent or ongoing threat to the safety and operation of the aircraft or involving a sudden need for a passenger or crew on board to be on land, such as a medical emergency.

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Ethiopian Airlines

Ethiopian Airlines (የኢትዮጵያ አየር መንገድ (Yäitəyop̣əya äyärə mänəgädə); የኢትዮጵያ (Yäitəyop̣əya) in short), formerly Ethiopian Air Lines (EAL) and often referred to as simply Ethiopian, is Ethiopia's flag carrier and is wholly owned by the country's government.

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Ethiopian Airlines accidents and incidents

Ethiopian Airlines, the national airline of Ethiopia, has a good safety record, by contrast to other African airlines.

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Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority

The Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority (ECAA, የኢትዮጵያ ሲቪል ኤቪዬሽን ባለሥልጣን) is an agency of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Government of Ethiopia.

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Félix-Houphouët-Boigny International Airport

Félix-Houphouët-Boigny International Airport, also known as Port Bouët Airport, is located south east of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

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Federal Aviation Administration

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the United States is a national authority with powers to regulate all aspects of civil aviation.

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Flight International

Flight International (or simply Flight) is a weekly magazine focused on aerospace, published in the United Kingdom.

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Flightglobal

Flightglobal is an online news and information website which covers the aviation and aerospace industries.

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Frankfurt Airport

Frankfurt Airport (Flughafen Frankfurt am Main, also known as Rhein-Main-Flughafen) is a major international airport located in Frankfurt, the fifth-largest city of Germany and one of the world's leading financial centres.

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Franklin Huddle

Franklin Pierce "Frank" Huddle, Jr. (born May 9, 1943) is an American diplomat.

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Fuel starvation

In an internal combustion engine, fuel starvation is defined as the failure of the fuel system to supply sufficient fuel to allow the engine to run properly, for example due to blockage, vapor lock, contamination by water, malfunction of the fuel pump or incorrect operation, leading to loss of power or engine stoppage.

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FYI (U.S. TV network)

FYI (stylized as fyi) is an American digital cable and satellite channel that is owned by A&E Networks, a cable network joint venture between the Disney–ABC Television Group subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company and the Hearst Communications (each own 50%).

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Gimli Glider

Air Canada Flight 143 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight between Montreal and Edmonton that ran out of fuel on July 23, 1983 at an altitude of, midway through the flight.

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Grande Comore

Grande Comore is an island in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa.

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I Survived...

I Survived... is a documentary television series produced by NHNZ that airs on Lifetime Movie Network.

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Jomo Kenyatta International Airport

Jomo Kenyatta International Airport is an international airport in Nairobi, the capital of and largest city in Kenya.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country in Africa with its capital and largest city in Nairobi.

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Lagos

Lagos is a city in the Nigerian state of Lagos.

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Leul Abate

Captain Leul Abate (Ge'ez: born 1954) is an Ethiopian pilot who piloted Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961, which was hijacked on 23 November 1996, fifteen minutes out from Addis Ababa to Nairobi, by three Ethiopians seeking political asylum in Australia.

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Liquor

Liquor (also hard liquor, hard alcohol, or spirits) is an alcoholic drink produced by distillation of grains, fruit, or vegetables that have already gone through alcoholic fermentation.

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List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft

This article is a list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft and is grouped by the years in which the accidents and incidents occurred.

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List of airline flights that required gliding

Airplane gliding occurs when all the engines shut down, but the wings are still functional and can be used for a controlled descent.

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List of Mayday episodes

Mayday, known as Air Crash Investigation(s) outside of the United States and Canada and also known as Air Emergency or Air Disasters (Smithsonian Channel) in the United States, is a Canadian documentary television series produced by Cineflix that recounts air crashes, near-crashes, fires, hijackings, bombings and other mainly flight-related disasters and crises.

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Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal is a newspaper based in Lubbock, Texas, United States.

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Madagascar

Madagascar (Madagasikara), officially the Republic of Madagascar (Repoblikan'i Madagasikara; République de Madagascar), and previously known as the Malagasy Republic, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of East Africa.

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Maya-Maya Airport

Maya–Maya Airport is the international airport of Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo.

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Mayday (Canadian TV series)

Mayday, also known as Air Crash Investigation in Australia, South Africa, United Kingdom, Asia, and some European countries, and Air Emergency and Air Disasters in the United States (both ended in 2008), is a Canadian documentary television program investigating air crashes, near-crashes, hijackings, bombings, and other disasters.

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Minnesota Daily

The Minnesota Daily is the campus newspaper of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, published Monday and Thursday while school is in session, and published weekly on Wednesdays during summer sessions.

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Mitsamiouli

Mitsamiouli (population 6,100) is a town on the northwest coast of Grande Comore in the Comoros.

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Mohamed Amin

Mohamed "Mo" Amin (29 August 1943 – 23 November 1996) was a Kenyan photojournalist noted for his pictures and videotapes of the Ethiopian famine.

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Moroni, Comoros

Moroni (Arabic: موروني Mūrūnī) is the largest city, federal capital and seat of the government of the Union of the Comoros, a sovereign archipelago nation in the Indian Ocean.

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Mumbai

Mumbai (also known as Bombay, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.

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Murtala Muhammed International Airport

Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) is an international airport located in Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria, and is the major airport serving the entire state.

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Nairobi

Nairobi is the capital and the largest city of Kenya.

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Personal flotation device

A personal flotation device (abbreviated as PFD; also referred to as a life jacket, life preserver, life belt, Mae West, life vest, life saver, cork jacket, buoyancy aid or flotation suit) is a piece of equipment designed to assist a wearer to keep afloat in water.

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Pilot in command

The pilot in command (PIC) of an aircraft is the person aboard the aircraft who is ultimately responsible for its operation and safety during flight.

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Pratt & Whitney JT9D

The Pratt & Whitney JT9D engine was the first high bypass ratio jet engine to power a wide-body airliner.

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Prince Said Ibrahim International Airport

Prince Said Ibrahim International Airport (French: Aéroport international Moroni Prince Saïd Ibrahim, AIMPSI) is an international airport serving Moroni in Comoros.

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Réunion

Réunion (La Réunion,; previously Île Bourbon) is an island and region of France in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar and southwest of Mauritius.

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Republic of the Congo

The Republic of the Congo (République du Congo), also known as the Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.

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Safari

A safari is an overland journey, usually a trip by tourists to Africa.

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Scuba set

A scuba set is any breathing apparatus that is carried entirely by an underwater diver and provides the diver with breathing gas at the ambient pressure.

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Serial code

A serial code is a unique identifier assigned incrementally or sequentially to an item.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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US Airways Flight 1549

US Airways Flight 1549 was an Airbus A320-214 which, in the climbout after takeoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport on January 15, 2009, struck a flock of Canada geese just northeast of the George Washington Bridge and consequently lost all engine power.

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Water landing

A water landing is, in the broadest sense, a landing on a body of water.

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1990 Guangzhou Baiyun airport collisions

On 2 October 1990, a hijacked Boeing 737, operating Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301, collided with two other aircraft on the runways of the old Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, while attempting to land.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_961

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