# Most Hijacked Airline???

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 13, 2001, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hijacked-airline/81249 "2001-09-13T03:01:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2001, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hijacked-airline/81249/1 "2001-09-13T03:01:23Z")

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Noticing that the terrorist chose American and United to hijack I got to wondering what airline has had the most.

Did Delta ever get hijacked?

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**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2001, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hijacked-airline/81249/2 "2001-09-13T03:37:56Z")

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[gallagher]  
TWA = Travel With Arabs  
DELTA = Don’t Even Let Them Aboard  
[/gallagher]

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**Author:** ![Ell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@Ell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ell)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2001, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hijacked-airline/81249/3 "2001-09-13T03:40:51Z")

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No cite. But I remember being told that most planes hijacked in the 70’s were out of Greece.

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**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2001, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hijacked-airline/81249/4 "2001-09-13T03:44:26Z")

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As for Greece I recall in the early 80s the other European nations were considering banning all flights from Athens as they said the security there was a joke.

So I think in that case it was a matter of an airport.

I just can’t recall a Delta Jet being hijacked.

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2001, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hijacked-airline/81249/5 "2001-09-13T04:44:00Z")

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Delta has been hijacked at least once.

> [@](#):
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> 1968
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> February 21
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> A Delta Airlines DC8 was forced to fly to Havana, Cuba, in the first successful hijacking of a US commercial airliner since 1961. The hijacker was granted political asylum.
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> [http://www.cdiss.org/terror\_1960s.htm](http://www.cdiss.org/terror_1960s.htm)