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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: subject an aircraft to air piracy; "the plane was skyjacked to Uzbekistan"

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Etymology: ¹sky + -jack (as in hijack) Date: 1961 to commandeer (an airplane in flight) by the threat of violence • skyjacker noun • skyjacking noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. sl. --v.tr. hijack (an aircraft). --n. an act of skyjacking. Derivatives: skyjacker n. Etymology: SKY + HIJACK