[MineralMan]

"I'm not convinced this is a hijacking. Sounds more like worker rage to me. Look at the descriptions of each event listed on the link. All instances contain the classifying word "hijacking" except this one, which is not described as a hijacking."

Let's see. A guy gets on the plane, shoots someone, then breaks into the cockpit and causes the plane to crash. Not a hijacking? Then the 9/11 things weren't hijackings either. I don't follow your reasoning.

[spald]

Well if you really want to get technical, hijacking refers to stealing property (esp liquor) by force.

My point is that hijacking is today thought to be a political action of terror. This American hijacking differs from the 9/11 acts because at the core of the hijacking is a worker who went postal rather than a group trying to make a political statement. You can see the difference?