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root-parentyesterday at 5:33 PM1 replyview on HN

Biased much? You could have used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_hijacking

That says:

"Airplane hijackings have occurred since the early days of flight. ...Pre-1929, 1929–1957, 1958–1979, 1980–2000, and 2001–present."

"...Between 1958 and 1967, there were approximately 40 hijackings worldwide..According to the FAA, in the 1960s, there were 100 attempts of hijackings involving U.S. aircraft: 77 successful and 23 unsuccessful....

"..In a five-year period (1968–1972) the world experienced 326 hijack attempts, or one every 5.6 days.."

And your conclusion is "Palestinian" movement (that you wrote between quotes)...invented airplane hijacking?


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raddichiotoday at 5:00 PM

Classic quibbling over the intended meaning of a comment and its most literal interpretation. Treating it as the commenters 'conclusion' is disingenuous, it is a statement based on the most commonly publicized events. Why would anyone look up a history of all airplane hijackings when it is well known and publicized and in some corners celebrated that the PLO/PFLP performed these actions against civilian aircraft? You only need to know they did it once to know the chance is nom-zero that these partisans present a security risk to civilian aircraft. The appeal to the data is hand-wringing.