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English
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An FBI hostage negotiator confronts a commercial pilot who has hijacked his own plane in this spellbinding thriller from New York Times–bestselling author John J. Nance
Airline pilot Ken Wolfe does not rattle easily. But when he learns that Rudolph Bostich is on his flight, his face goes pale. Bostich, the presumptive nominee for US Attorney General, bungled the case against the man who kidnapped and killed Wolfe’s...
Airline pilot Ken Wolfe does not rattle easily. But when he learns that Rudolph Bostich is on his flight, his face goes pale. Bostich, the presumptive nominee for US Attorney General, bungled the case against the man who kidnapped and killed Wolfe’s...
2) Falling
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English
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"You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don't know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot's family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight." --
Author
Publisher
Rainier Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Cora is scared to fly again after her husband died in a recent helicopter crash in Pago Pago. A thousand times she has told herself to turn around, not get on the flight, go back to her young children. But now, she's seated in first class across the aisle from the girlfriend of a famous billionaire pharmaceutical entrepreneur. Halfway across the Pacific, the flgith is hijacked. Six people are dead -- including the pilots. Cora is a young widow, mother,...
4) Skyjacked
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Five teenagers from the elite Hartwell Academy are on their way back to New York from an end-of-summer camping trip in Idaho when they realize that something has gone wrong; one of them has become violently ill, and their private plane has apparently been hijacked and is headed in the wrong direction--and even if they can somehow break into the cockpit and manage to overpower the hijacker, they have no idea how to fly the plane, much less land it.
Cassie,...
Author
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Jake Kruse novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"Veteran undercover FBI agent Jake Kruse is investigating a smuggling ring in southern California when his assignment is cut short. A prominent criminal defense attorney wants to hire Jake on another kind of mission: to kill the daughter of a local crime boss. What began as a "contract killing" soon captures the attention of the CIA, the U.S. Secret Service, and high-level officials in Washington. The undercover agent is plunged into a deadly underworld...
6) Hijacked
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Special Agent Ross's plans to reconcile with his ex-fiance are ruined when she boards a private jet that is targeted by hijackers working for the same crime lord he is chasing. With no time to inform his team, Ross wriggles his way aboard the aircraft and risks it all to save the love of his life. An adrenaline fueled action packed film that puts the fear back in flying!
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"A powerful reconstruction of the flight's final moments. . . . Made me think of John Hersey's Hiroshima." - New York Times Book Review
Thedefinitive story of the courageous men and women aboard Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, and of the day that forever changed the way Americans view the world and themselves.
Of the four horrific hijackings on September 11, Flight 93 resonates as one of epic resistance. At a time when the United States appeared...
8) Bloodless
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Series
Pendergast novels volume 20
Language
English
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"Agent Pendergast faces his most unexpected challenge yet when bloodless bodies begin to appear in Savannah, GA"--
Author
Series
Presidential Agent novels volume 1
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
When a leased Boeing 727 mysteriously vanishes after two passengers murder the pilot, Army intelligence officer Major Carlos Guillermo Castillo, a veteran of the Special Forces, is called in by the president of the United States to uncover the truth and embarks on an undercover investigation into a case with frightening implications.
10) Air Force One
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1998, 1997.
Language
English
Description
Terrorists have seized Air Force One thirty thousand feet in the air with the President, his family, and more than fifty other people on board. The terrorists threaten to execute a hostage every 30 minutes if their demands are not met. The official word from Washington is "no negotiations".
11) Altitude
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A female FBI agent is offered millions to help a thief escape a hijacked airplane.
13) Wilderness peril
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
[1985]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Two teenage boys camping in the Minnesota woods encounter a desperate airplane hijacker attempting to escape with three-quarters of a million dollars.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Air Force One: The U.S. President has just told the world he will not negotiate with terrorists. But when Russian terrorists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision--give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter. In the line of fire: Frank Horrigan, a veteran Secret Service agent haunted by his...
15) The mark
Publisher
Pure Flix Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The international economy is on the verge of collapse. To help the situation, a secret new technology capable of tracking one's personal data is to be announced at the G20 Summit in Berlin. On a flight from Bangkok to Berlin, former soldier Chad Turner is the world's first test subject for this technology. As Chad realizes his true mission, he must push himself to the breaking point to save himself and all on board.
16) 97 minutes
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A hijacked 767 has 97 minutes of fuel left before it crashes, potentially killing thousands. Government agents monitoring the threat must determine whether they can trust an undercover agent to avert the crash and save the innocents on board.
Author
Series
Unsolved case files volume 001
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A minute-by-minute account of the only unsolved airplane hijacking in the United States uses reproductions of FBI files and investigation photographs to chronicle the events surrounding an unidentified extortionist's 1971 hijacking and disappearance.
18) Girl on a plane
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"This is a fictionalized story based on the amazing real life experiences of Miriam Moss, a fifteen year old English school girl who was held hostage on a plane hijacked by the Palestinian Liberation Front in 1970"--
19) The terrorists
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"Sean Connery delivers a compelling performance as Nils Tahlvik, the tough-as-nails security chief of a wealthy Scandinavian country. Tahlvik faces his ultimate challenge when a ruthless group of terrorists takes the British Ambassador hostage and hijacks a passenger jet. Tahlvik's government order him to cooperate fully--but he's not about to give in!"--Container.
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