Editing Aircraft hijacking (section)

==In popular culture==
*The 1942 [[Superman]] film ''[[Japoteurs]]'' depicts Superman saving Metropolis from a bombardier hijacked by Japanese spies during World War II.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Darowski |first1=John |title=Adapting Superman: essays on the transmedia man of steel |date=2021 |publisher=McFarland & company |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |isbn=9781476642390 |page=33}}</ref>
*The 1997 Hollywood film ''[[Air Force One (film)|Air Force One]]'' is based on the fictional hijacking of [[Air Force One]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118571/|title=Air Force One|author=IMDb|publisher=IMDb|access-date=2018-07-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180610075748/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118571/|archive-date=2018-06-10|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Hijacking is a central theme in the ''[[Turbulence (1997 film)|Turbulence]]'' movie trilogy.
*In ''[[Mission: Impossible 2]]'', one of the film's antagonists hijacks a plane at the start of the movie. 
*The 2006 film ''[[United 93 (film)|United 93]]'' is based on the real events onboard [[United Airlines Flight 93]] one of the four airlines hijacked during the September 11 attacks.
*The 2012 film ''[[The Dark Knight Rises]]'' features an opening sequence of hijacking and crashing an aircraft for the purpose of kidnapping a man and faking his death.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836/|title=The Dark Knight Rises|author=IMDb|publisher=IMDb|access-date=2018-07-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180713204838/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836/|archive-date=2018-07-13|url-status=live}}</ref>
*The film ''[[Con Air]]'' features a U.S. Marshals aircraft being hijacked by the maximum-security prisoners on board.
*''[[The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story]]'' was a made-for-TV film based on the actual hijacking of [[TWA Flight 847]], as seen through the eyes of the chief flight attendant [[Uli Derickson]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096216/|title=The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story|publisher=IMDb|access-date=2018-07-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728223041/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096216/|archive-date=2018-07-28|url-status=live}}</ref>
*''[[Passenger 57]]'' depicts an airline security expert trapped on a passenger jet when terrorists seize control.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105104/|title=Passenger 87|publisher=IMDb|access-date=2018-07-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180730140108/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105104/|archive-date=2018-07-30|url-status=live}}</ref>
*''[[Executive Decision]]'' depicts a Boeing 747 carrying 400 passengers being hijacked by Algerian terrorists, and U.S. marine and Army special forces use a reconnaissance aircraft to re-take the plane.
*''[[Skyjacked (film)|Skyjacked]]'' is a 1972 film about a crazed Vietnam War veteran hijacking an airliner, demanding to be taken to the Soviet Union.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069278/ |title=Skyjacked |date=26 August 1972 |publisher=IMDb |access-date=2018-07-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616191309/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069278/ |archive-date=2018-06-16 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*The 1986 film ''[[The Delta Force]]'' depicted a Special Forces squad tasked with retaking a plane hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, loosely based on the hijacking of [[TWA Flight 847]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090927/ |title=The Delta Force |publisher=IMDb |access-date=2018-07-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180803204626/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090927/ |archive-date=2018-08-03 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*The 2004 film ''[[The Assassination of Richard Nixon]]'', based on a true incident, depicts a disillusioned tire salesman who attempts to hijack a plane in 1974 and crash it into the [[White House]]. His attempt failed and he was mortally wounded by an airport policeman. He killed himself before police stormed the plane.
*The 2006 film ''[[Snakes On a Plane]]'' is a fictional story about aircraft piracy through the in-flight release of venomous snakes.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417148/|title=Snakes on a Plane|author=IMDb|publisher=IMDb|access-date=2018-07-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180626001348/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417148/|archive-date=2018-06-26|url-status=live}}</ref>
*In ''[[Harold and Kumar 2]]'', two U.S. [[Federal Air Marshal Service|Air Marshal]]s subdue Harold and Kumar on board a plane after mistaking them for terrorists.
*The 2011 film ''[[Payanam (2011 film)|Payanam]]'' is a movie entirely based on the negotiations and rescue operations done by the Indian security forces in response to a flight hijacking incident.
*In the 2013 video game ''[[Grand Theft Auto V]]'' the player is tasked with hijacking a [[cargo plane]] carrying a large shipment of weapons by crashing a [[crop duster]] into the cargo bay mid-flight and fighting to seize control of the aircraft. The cargo plane is later shot down by the [[US Air Force]], requiring the player to bail out.
*The 2014 film ''[[Non-Stop (film)|Non-Stop]]'' depicts an aircraft hijacking.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2024469/ |title=Non-Stop |date=28 February 2014 |publisher=[[IMDb]] |access-date=2018-07-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180803143912/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2024469/ |archive-date=2018-08-03 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*The Indian film ''[[Neerja]]'' is based on the hijacking of [[Pan Am Flight 73]] in Karachi.
*In 2016, German television broadcast the film ''{{ill|The Verdict (2016 film)|de|Terror – Ihr Urteil|lt=The Verdict}}'', in which a [[Bundeswehr]] military pilot shoots down a hijacked passenger plane with 164 people on board that was heading towards a stadium filled with 70,000 people. Following the broadcast, a public vote was called for in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and 86.9% of viewers voted that the pilot was not guilty of murder.<ref>[http://www.daserste.de/unterhaltung/film/terror-ihr-urteil/sendung/terror-ihr-urteil-100.html Terror - Ihr Urteil - ARD] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170612152350/http://www.daserste.de/unterhaltung/film/terror-ihr-urteil/sendung/terror-ihr-urteil-100.html |date=2017-06-12 }} (German) | retrieved 20 June 2017</ref>
*The 2019 film [[7500 (film)|''7500'']] depicts the struggle of a pilot to land an aircraft and maintain control of its cockpit during a hijacking.
*The 2023 [[Apple TV+]] original series ''[[Hijack (TV series)|Hijack]]'' stars [[Idris Elba]] as Sam, a talented business negotiator, who embarks on a mission to broker a peaceful end to a hijacking of his 7-hour flight from Dubai to London.
*The 2024 Indian [[Netflix]] web-series ''[[IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack]]'' reconstructs the real events onboard [[Indian Airlines Flight 814]]