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20 Years After the Hijacking of Air France Flight 8969
- Vigier 12y agoHere's the untranslated piece on Le Figaro's website for those who read French: http://www.lefigaro.fr/assets/marignane/ http://www.lefigaro.fr/assets/marignane/
- jdcryans 12y agoMerci :) I wonder why Google translated "huis-clos" to "camera" in the header text. Best I could find is that Sartre's Huis Clos was originally called "in camera" which means: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_camera http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_camera.
- doe88 12y agoI don't know for sure if it truly was their plan but it was later revealed that their goal was either to crash the plane on the Eiffel Tower or on an other tall building of Paris.
- chatman 12y agohttp://www.dailymotion.com/video/x18tmnc_mayday-s02e03-the-killing-machine-hijacked-hijack-rescue_shortfilms http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x18tmnc_mayday-s02e03-the-k...
- b_emery 12y agoThe wikipedia page reads like a Clancy novel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_8969 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_8969 Intense situation. It's remarkable that in the end there were so few casualties.
- jaktet 12y agoJust FYI if you load the original page (http://www.lefigaro.fr/assets/marignane/ http://www.lefigaro.fr/assets/marignane/) you can see the video reenactment and a comparison of essentially before and after of the cockpit.
- secfirstmd 12y agoThere is a movie made about this... The Assault http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1793239/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1793239/