Air France Flight 8969
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air-france-flight-8969-205-7461537
title:
Air France Flight 8969
text:
Air France Flight 8969 was an Air France flight that was hijacked on 24 December 1994 by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria (GIA) at Houari Boumediene Airport, Algiers. The terrorists murdered three passengers and their intention was either to detonate the aircraft over the Eiffel Tower or the Tour Montparnasse in Paris. When the aircraft reached Marseille, the National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN), a tier one counterterrorism and hostage rescue unit of the French National Gendarmerie,
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
1994 aircraft hijacking
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_8969
date created:
2003-07-11T22:58:53Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T19:48:24Z
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13
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