are you doing?
- Get down, everybody.
- Put your heads down.
This is a hijack. This is a hand grenade.
We wiII bIow the pIane
if you do not do exactIy as we say.
Put your hands on your head.
Oh, my God.
No!
Robert, are you aII right?
We are prepared to die.
Do not provoke me.
You want to die, you die somepIace eIse.
Shush, shush. Mister... Don't.
Don't.
- Cockpit. Come.
- We wiII cooperate.
- Open...
- CaIm down. We'II cooperate, man.
We'II do anything you want.
Open the cockpit.
Open this door.
Jim. It's me.
Open.
- Open, Jim.
- Is everything OK?
Everything is aII right. Open, pIease.
Open this door or I wiII bIow the pIane.
Jim, you have to open.
Pick it up.
Move. Sit down.
I am taking over this airpIane.
You wiII cooperate.
We'II take you anywhere
you wanna go, buddy.
Now why don't you put that pin
back into that hand grenade?
Put it.
Easy, Jim.
I am prepared to die. I am AbduI Rafai.
I am a commander in
the New WorId RevoIution.
You wiII take orders from me,
and from no one but me,
or I wiII bIow this airpIane.
- Do you hear me?
- Loud and cIear.
Now, you fIy to Beirut.
- Where?
- Beirut. FIy to Beirut.
Beirut.
Roger.
- Take your hand away.
- That's normaI procedure.
Damn it, it's a hijack!
CaII the American Embassy.
- Dave, contact Athens departure controI.
- No.
You wiII fIy by map.
I know fIying. You wiII fIy by map.
I don't think
we have enough fueI, Captain.
Then you wiII fIy
untiI your fueI runs out, Captain.
That is aII.
American Embassy? This is
the Athens airport tower. lt's urgent.
This is the Deputy Chief Officer
of the American Embassy.
Get me the State Department
operations centre. This is an emergency.
l'm reporting a hijack.
lt occurred five minutes ago
aboard American Travelways Flight 282...
WASHINGTON D.C.,
FRIDAY, JULY 19TH - 2.10AM
We have no more information
at present as to the status...
THE PENTAGON,
FRIDAY, JULY 19TH - 2.15AM
Yes, sir. l'll put the President on the line.
Good evening. Or, rather, good morning.
As you know, we have
a major crisis in the MiddIe East.
The President is sending the DeIta Force
into the area immediateIy.
Now, what we have to do is work out
an emergency rescue operation.
Get me Nick AIexander at Bragg.
FORT BRAGG, NORTH CAROLINA,
FRIDAY, JULY 19TH - 2.20AM
Ah, come on, Nick.
You can't see 'em from over there.
WeII, I got a good imagination.
I was just tryin' to be nice.
Anyone ever accuse you
of being a gentIeman, Nick?
Not IateIy.
Grab me the phone,
wouId you, sweetheart?
AIexander here.
Put DeIta Force on a Phase Three aIert.
ATW FIight 282 was just hijacked.
- Get Sabre Squadron to the MiddIe East.
- Lebanon?
We don't know for sure.
- Check in whiIe you're in the air.
- WiII do, GeneraI.
Here you go, sweetheart.
Ladies and gentlemen,
this is your new captain speaking.
My name is AbduI Rafai.
l am a member of the New World
Revolutionary Organisation.
We have declared war on American
imperialists, Zionists, terrorists,
and aII other antisociaIist atrocities.
Your plane is now headed
for a new destination.
For your safety,
I suggest you Iisten carefuIIy
and foIIow aII instructions.
- Harry.
- What?
My ring, it's Hebrew.
Take it off. Put it in your purse.
Take it off.
Harry, there's a white mark on my hand.
Think they'II notice?
WiII you marry me?
Oh, Harry. What's gonna happen to us?
One thing is certain.
We'II aIways remember
our siIver wedding anniversary.
Let's do something.
It's onIy two of 'em. We can take 'em.
It's not a good idea.
These guys are dangerous.
If they're gonna bIow this pIane up, that's
a Iot of peopIe. We gotta pIay their game.
AII right.
You can aII sit up now.
But nobody taIks.
Nobody move.
Excuse me, sir.
- This young Iady is preg...
- Shut up.
PIease, I'm not feeIing weII.
FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
McCOY'S RANCH,
FRIDAY, JULY 19TH - 2.42AM
..has just been hijacked.
Over 100 Americans are believed