1994, 24 декабря — захват французского аэробуса А-300 алжирскими террористами.

Реальные документальные кадры.

Time magazine covered this suicide-hijacking event in detail on January 9, 1995.

The hostage drama began on Christmas Eve as Air France Flight 8969 prepared for a scheduled 11:15 a.m. departure for Paris. Most of the 227 passengers had settled into their seats in an almost festive mood, as they looked forward to joining family and friends for the holidays. The boarding of four armed men in blue uniforms with Air Algerie identification badges caused no alarm. Explaining they were security agents, the men proceeded to check the passengers’ passports. Then they suddenly closed and locked the doors. “I knew it was a hostage taking when they shouted, ‘Allah is great!’ ” recalled a 40-year-old Algerian-born mechanic now living in France. “I thought of my children back in France, and I became afraid. Three men entered the cockpit, the fourth covered us with his Kalashnikov. No one budged. Then the waiting started.”

For two of the travelers, the wait was over all too soon. One traveler, an Algerian policeman identified during the passport check, was ordered by the hijackers to the front of the plane. Passengers heard him plead, “Don’t kill . me, I have a wife and child!” The terrorists shot him in the head and dumped him outside onto a baggage cart, where he lay in agony for some time. The second victim was Bui Giang To, 48, a commercial attache at the Vietnamese embassy in Algiers. “They asked the Vietnamese man sitting in the rear to come forward,” recounted one of the passengers. “Poor guy — we saw him come back to get his leather jacket. Then we heard the shot.”