Major airplanes hijacking since 1990

A glance at major airplane hijackings since 1990 till now:

— January 2007: Sudanese plane carrying 103 passengers and team is captured and diverted to Chadian capital, N’Djamena, where hijacker surrenders.

— August 2004: Four Eritreans equipped with knives hijack plane that they left Libya and force it to land in Khartoum, Sudan, earlier than surrendering to security forces.

— September 2001: Terrorists take over four airplanes and crash two of them into World Trade Center in New York and one into Pentagon. In fourth jetliner, passengers fight terrorists and plane crashes in rural Pennsylvania. In all the planes, nearly 3,000 people from 90 nations killed.

— March 2001: Three Chechens capture Russian plane and oblige it to land in Saudi Arabia. One flight assistant and a hijacker are killed while Saudi special armed forces storm aircraft.

— December 1999: Five men take over flight from Katmandu, Nepal, to New Delhi. Indian passenger wounded to death when he disobeys commands not to look at hijackers, but other 154 passengers and team released after eight days.

— November 1996: Three hijackers squall cockpit of flight from Ethiopia to Ivory Coast, challenging to go to Australia. Plane runs out of fuel and smash into lands, killing 125 of the 175 people aboard.

— October 1990: Single Man capture Chinese airplane and attacks pilot as he makes emergency landing in Guangzhou; 128 people are killed.