Aircraft hijacking

Aircraft hijacking - incident involving unlawful seizure of an aircraft in operation. Article “Aircraft hijacking” in English Wikipedia has 90.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 136 references and 24 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2026 the article “Aircraft hijacking” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Aircraft hijacking”, its content was written by 581 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1452 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 885 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3926 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #788 in November 2003
• Global: #1369 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #14076 in March 2014
• Global: #15941 in March 2014

There are 39 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Aircraft hijacking		90.0996
2	Thai (th) การจี้บังคับอากาศยาน		86.1619
3	Japanese (ja) ハイジャック		70.2307
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Flykapring		53.5972
5	Spanish (es) Piratería aérea		49.1883
6	Vietnamese (vi) Không tặc		42.5183
7	Hebrew (he) חטיפת מטוס		41.4487
8	Tamil (ta) வானூர்தி செல்வழிக்கடத்தல்		29.4845
9	Turkish (tr) Hava korsanlığı		27.6125
10	Chinese (zh) 劫机		26.9943

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Aircraft hijacking" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Aircraft hijacking		3 904 110
2	Japanese (ja) ハイジャック		1 530 915
3	German (de) Flugzeugentführung		420 182
4	Chinese (zh) 劫机		282 991
5	Russian (ru) Угон воздушного судна		245 138
6	Spanish (es) Piratería aérea		197 381
7	French (fr) Détournement d'avion		193 437
8	Italian (it) Dirottamento aereo		116 221
9	Indonesian (id) Pembajakan pesawat		94 032
10	Persian (fa) هواپیماربایی		93 706

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Aircraft hijacking" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Aircraft hijacking		11 249
2	Japanese (ja) ハイジャック		2 836
3	Russian (ru) Угон воздушного судна		1 033
4	Chinese (zh) 劫机		944
5	German (de) Flugzeugentführung		852
6	Spanish (es) Piratería aérea		575
7	French (fr) Détournement d'avion		525
8	Persian (fa) هواپیماربایی		433
9	Italian (it) Dirottamento aereo		415
10	Polish (pl) Porwanie samolotu		199

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Aircraft hijacking" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Aircraft hijacking		581
2	German (de) Flugzeugentführung		158
3	Japanese (ja) ハイジャック		127
4	Chinese (zh) 劫机		84
5	French (fr) Détournement d'avion		68
6	Italian (it) Dirottamento aereo		44
7	Dutch (nl) Vliegtuigkaping		40
8	Russian (ru) Угон воздушного судна		37
9	Hebrew (he) חטיפת מטוס		31
10	Indonesian (id) Pembajakan pesawat		26

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Aircraft hijacking" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) اختطاف الطائرات		1
2	Greek (el) Αεροπειρατεία		1
3	English (en) Aircraft hijacking		1
4	French (fr) Détournement d'avion		1
5	Japanese (ja) ハイジャック		1
6	Chinese (zh) 劫机		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Aviaquldurluq		0
8	Catalan (ca) Segrest aeri		0
9	Czech (cs) Únos letadla		0
10	Danish (da) Flykapring		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Aircraft hijacking" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Aircraft hijacking		885
2	Japanese (ja) ハイジャック		557
3	French (fr) Détournement d'avion		254
4	Russian (ru) Угон воздушного судна		214
5	Chinese (zh) 劫机		205
6	Italian (it) Dirottamento aereo		170
7	German (de) Flugzeugentführung		164
8	Spanish (es) Piratería aérea		156
9	Hebrew (he) חטיפת מטוס		116
10	Persian (fa) هواپیماربایی		111

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic اختطاف الطائرات
az	Azerbaijani Aviaquldurluq
ca	Catalan Segrest aeri
cs	Czech Únos letadla
da	Danish Flykapring
de	German Flugzeugentführung
el	Greek Αεροπειρατεία
en	English Aircraft hijacking
es	Spanish Piratería aérea
et	Estonian Õhupiraatlus
fa	Persian هواپیماربایی
fi	Finnish Lentokonekaappaus
fr	French Détournement d'avion
he	Hebrew חטיפת מטוס
id	Indonesian Pembajakan pesawat
it	Italian Dirottamento aereo
ja	Japanese ハイジャック
kk	Kazakh Әуе кемесін айдап кету
ko	Korean 항공기 납치
lt	Lithuanian Lėktuvo užgrobimas
ms	Malay Perampasan pesawat
nl	Dutch Vliegtuigkaping
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Flykapring
no	Norwegian Flykapring
pl	Polish Porwanie samolotu
pt	Portuguese Sequestro de aeronave
ro	Romanian Deturnare de avion
ru	Russian Угон воздушного судна
simple	Simple English Aircraft hijacking
sr	Serbian Otmica vazduhoplova
sv	Swedish Flygplanskapning
ta	Tamil வானூர்தி செல்வழிக்கடத்தல்
th	Thai การจี้บังคับอากาศยาน
tr	Turkish Hava korsanlığı
uk	Ukrainian Захоплення повітряного судна
ur	Urdu طیارہ اغوا
vi	Vietnamese Không tặc
zh	Chinese 劫机
zhminnan	Min Nan Kiap-ki

Best Rank

English: #14076 03.2014

Global: #15941 03.2014

Best Rank

English: #788 11.2003

Global: #1369 09.2001

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