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Dec 2, 2016 · 8969: Directed by Azeem Sajjad. With Saba Qamar, Sadaf Hamid, Noor Hassan, Haseeb Khan. A series of mysterious events take place and upon investigation it is revealed that a revenge is been taken of The Murder which was committed many years ago in Federal B Area,Islamabad.
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- Crime, Mystery, Thriller
- Azeem Sajjad
- 2016-12-02
8969 is a 2016 Pakistani thriller film directed by Azeem Sajjad. The film stars Saba Qamar, and introducing new stars namely Hussain Tiwana, Sadaf Hamid, Anam Goher and Ali Jabran Khan in lead roles. It was released on 2 December 2016 under the production banner of A J Media Productions.
- Raheel Fayyaz
- Rs 6 Million
- AJ Khan
- Saba Qamar, Hussain Tiwana, Azeem Sajjad, Sadaf Hamid, Anum Malik, Ali Jabran Khan
The Assault (French: L'Assaut) is a 2010 French action thriller film directed by Julien Leclercq, based on the 1994 hijacking of Air France Flight 8969 by Algerian Islamic fundamentalist terrorists and the raid to free the hostages by the GIGN, the elite counter-terrorism unit of the French National Gendarmerie.
- $4.3 million
- Jean-Jacques Hertz, François Roy
- $4.6 million
- Julien Leclercq, Julien Madon
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Algeria was in a state of civil war at the time of the hijacking. Aircraft flying to Algeria faced the possibility of missile attacks. As a result, Air France's flights to Algeria had crews composed entirely of people who volunteered for the route. Air France had asked government officials if it absolutely had to continue flying to Algeria; by the ...
Bernard Delhemme, aged 51, was the captain of the flight. Jean-Paul Borderie was the copilot, and Alain Bossuat was the flight engineer.
24 December
On 24 December 1994, at Houari Boumedienne Airport in Algiers, four armed men boarded Air France Flight 8969 which was due to depart for Orly Airport, Paris at 11:15a.m. The men were dressed as Algerian presidential police; they wore blue uniforms with Air Algérie logos. Their presence originally did not cause any alarm. Two of the men began inspecting the passengers' passports while one went into the cockpit and the fourth stood guard. Claude Burgniard, a veteran flight attendant, recalled n...
25 December
Captain Delhemme made a tour of the cabin at about 2:00a.m. the next morning to check on the situation; he said that the cabin was "calm" during that time. He noticed two of the hijackers asleep on the floor.In the morning, French Prime Minister Édouard Balladur flew to Paris. New information arrived at the Consulate General of France in Oran, Algeria, via a molein the GIA: Police confirmed this plan after a raid on a safe house. The hijackers released some of the passengers, mainly women wit...
26 December
The aircraft approached Marseille during the early hours of 26 December. The hijackers did not know that Major Denis Favier's GIGN squad was already in Marseille, having flown from Majorca to a military base near Marseille, and planned to storm the aircraft while it was in Marseille. The GIGN squad practised entering the A300 before Flight 8969 arrived in Marseille. Favier explained in an interview that the enemy was arriving in friendly territory, and the power difference would be a key elem...
Once the hijackers noticed the boarding stairs moving towards them, they recognised the imminent assault. Through the cockpit window, a hijacker fired upon the stairs containing the forward GIGN team. As the first stairs reached the front starboard (right) door, it became apparent that it was elevated too high relative to the door frame for a unifo...
As a result of the damage to the aircraft, the A300 was written off and later scrapped at the airport in September 1995. Several hours after the incident ended, the Armed Islamic Group, which had claimed responsibility for the event, killed four Roman Catholic priests in retaliation in Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria. Three of the priests were French, while on...
Most of the passengers were Algerians; 138 of the passengers were Algerian citizens.[a] A significant number of the passengers were French people leaving Algeria. Captain Bernard Delhemme said that the hijackers, who had extensively planned the operation, did not anticipate that most of the passengers would be Algerians. The hijackers recited Quran...
25-year-old Abdul Abdullah Yahia, also known as "The Emir", was a petty thief and greengrocer from the Bab El Oued neighbourhood of Algiers. By the time of the hijacking, he was notorious for beheading Algerian policemen. The negotiators said that Yahia spoke "approximate" French and always ended his sentences in "Insha'Allah" ("God willing").Sever...
The 2011 French film L'Assautwas made with the collaboration and advice of the GIGN.Flight attendant Christophe Morin and passenger Zahida Kakachi co-authored the book Le vol Alger-Marseille: Journal d'otages, recalling the events of the attack and how it had affected their lives.The events of Flight 8969 were featured in "The Killing Machine", a Season 2 (2004) episode of the Canadian TV series Mayday (called Air Emergency and Air Disasters in the U.S. and Air Crash Invest...The incident was also featured in an episode of the Zero Hour television series called "Shoot-Out in Marseille". Using a mix of real footage and reenactment, it suggests that two of the terrorists...Taylor, Peter (29 April 2008). "The Paris Plot". Age of Terror. Episode 3. BBC. BBC Two. Archived from the original on 2 May 2008. Retrieved 14 February 2009.
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Oct 17, 2016 · 8969 is upcoming Pakistani thriller film directed by Azeem Sajjad. The film stars Saba Qamar, Hussain Tiwana, Sadaf Hamid and Anum Malik in lead roles. It is set to release in early 2016...
- 2 min
- 17.6K
- Hamza Raheel
Apr 5, 2012 · Julien Leclercq’s thriller The Assault dramatizes the 1994 hijacking of Air France Flight 8969, during which four terrorists took over a Paris-bound plane in Algiers, intending to crash it into...
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