Air France Flight 8969
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<entity_2> was an <entity_4> flight that was <entity_6> on 24 <entity_3> by the Armed Islamic Group of <entity_8> (GIA) at <entity_1>, <entity_7>, <entity_8>. As a result, <entity_4> flights to <entity_8> had crews entirely made of people who volunteered for the route. <entity_4> had asked government officials if it absolutely had to continue flying to <entity_8>; by the time of the hijacking, they had not received a reply. On 24 <entity_3>, at <entity_0> in <entity_7>, four armed men boarded <entity_2> which was due to depart for Orly Airport, Paris at 11:15 am. They had <entity_6> the aircraft because the national airline <entity_4> was a symbol of <entity_9>, which they viewed as infidel foreign invaders. At 8:00 pm, Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale (GIGN) operatives boarded an Airbus A300 aircraft similar to F-GBEC, the <entity_6> plane, at a military base in <entity_9>. New information arrived at the Consulate General of <entity_9> in Oran, <entity_8>, via a mole in the GIA: We received this information directly from members of the Algerian secret service. Just before midnight, Balladur told the President of <entity_8>, Liamine Zéroual, that <entity_9> was ready to receive the <entity_4> flight. Delhemme confronted Yahia to find out whether he planned to blow up the aircraft between <entity_7> and <entity_5>. The aircraft approached <entity_5> during the early hours of <entity_3>. Steward Claude Burgniard said that the hijackers felt that the landing in <entity_5> was a "magic moment" as they had arrived in <entity_9>.
['aircraft hijacking']