Aircraft hijacking

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Aircraft hijacking

Quality:

Aircraft hijacking - incident involving unlawful seizure of an aircraft in operation. Article “Aircraft hijacking” in English Wikipedia has 95.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 125 references and 23 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 2025 the article “Aircraft hijacking” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Aircraft hijacking”, its content was written by 567 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1417 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 894 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3737 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #789 in November 2003
  • Global: #1359 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #14009 in March 2014
  • Global: #15615 in March 2014

There are 38 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, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

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

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Aircraft hijacking
95.3309
2Japanese (ja)
ハイジャック
70.8354
3Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
Flykapring
53.5972
4Spanish (es)
Piratería aérea
50.0306
5Hebrew (he)
חטיפת מטוס
40.3941
6Tamil (ta)
வானூர்தி செல்வழிக்கடத்தல்
29.5697
7Chinese (zh)
劫机
28.1926
8Turkish (tr)
Hava korsanlığı
27.3253
9Polish (pl)
Porwanie samolotu
25.7647
10Vietnamese (vi)
Không tặc
25.6858
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Aircraft hijacking" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Aircraft hijacking
3 724 989
2Japanese (ja)
ハイジャック
1 486 793
3German (de)
Flugzeugentführung
404 889
4Chinese (zh)
劫机
269 830
5Russian (ru)
Угон воздушного судна
227 346
6Spanish (es)
Piratería aérea
186 924
7French (fr)
Détournement d'avion
183 902
8Italian (it)
Dirottamento aereo
110 339
9Indonesian (id)
Pembajakan pesawat
92 291
10Persian (fa)
هواپیماربایی
88 332
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Aircraft hijacking" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Aircraft hijacking
20 948
2Japanese (ja)
ハイジャック
5 557
3Russian (ru)
Угон воздушного судна
1 374
4German (de)
Flugzeugentführung
1 214
5Chinese (zh)
劫机
1 121
6Spanish (es)
Piratería aérea
957
7French (fr)
Détournement d'avion
901
8Persian (fa)
هواپیماربایی
481
9Italian (it)
Dirottamento aereo
453
10Turkish (tr)
Hava korsanlığı
292
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Aircraft hijacking" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Aircraft hijacking
567
2German (de)
Flugzeugentführung
158
3Japanese (ja)
ハイジャック
122
4Chinese (zh)
劫机
82
5French (fr)
Détournement d'avion
67
6Italian (it)
Dirottamento aereo
42
7Dutch (nl)
Vliegtuigkaping
40
8Russian (ru)
Угон воздушного судна
34
9Hebrew (he)
חטיפת מטוס
30
10Indonesian (id)
Pembajakan pesawat
23
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Aircraft hijacking" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Hebrew (he)
חטיפת מטוס
4
2English (en)
Aircraft hijacking
2
3Indonesian (id)
Pembajakan pesawat
1
4Italian (it)
Dirottamento aereo
1
5Arabic (ar)
اختطاف الطائرات
0
6Azerbaijani (az)
Aviaquldurluq
0
7Catalan (ca)
Segrest aeri
0
8Czech (cs)
Únos letadla
0
9Danish (da)
Flykapring
0
10German (de)
Flugzeugentführung
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Aircraft hijacking" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Aircraft hijacking
894
2Japanese (ja)
ハイジャック
546
3French (fr)
Détournement d'avion
221
4Chinese (zh)
劫机
203
5Russian (ru)
Угон воздушного судна
191
6German (de)
Flugzeugentführung
164
7Italian (it)
Dirottamento aereo
158
8Spanish (es)
Piratería aérea
149
9Hebrew (he)
חטיפת מטוס
114
10Persian (fa)
هواپیماربایی
99
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
اختطاف الطائرات
azAzerbaijani
Aviaquldurluq
caCatalan
Segrest aeri
csCzech
Únos letadla
daDanish
Flykapring
deGerman
Flugzeugentführung
elGreek
Αεροπειρατεία
enEnglish
Aircraft hijacking
esSpanish
Piratería aérea
etEstonian
Õhupiraatlus
faPersian
هواپیماربایی
fiFinnish
Lentokonekaappaus
frFrench
Détournement d'avion
heHebrew
חטיפת מטוס
idIndonesian
Pembajakan pesawat
itItalian
Dirottamento aereo
jaJapanese
ハイジャック
kkKazakh
Әуе кемесін айдап кету
koKorean
항공기 납치
ltLithuanian
Lėktuvo užgrobimas
msMalay
Perampasan pesawat
nlDutch
Vliegtuigkaping
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Flykapring
noNorwegian
Flykapring
plPolish
Porwanie samolotu
ptPortuguese
Sequestro de aeronave
roRomanian
Deturnare de avion
ruRussian
Угон воздушного судна
simpleSimple English
Aircraft hijacking
srSerbian
Otmica vazduhoplova
svSwedish
Flygplanskapning
taTamil
வானூர்தி செல்வழிக்கடத்தல்
trTurkish
Hava korsanlığı
ukUkrainian
Захоплення повітряного судна
urUrdu
طیارہ اغوا
viVietnamese
Không tặc
zhChinese
劫机
zhminnanMin Nan
Kiap-ki

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#14009
03.2014
Global:
#15615
03.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#789
11.2003
Global:
#1359
09.2001

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Aircraft hijacking from Wikipedia articles about September 11 attacks, D. B. Cooper, Mohamed Atta, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and Indian Airlines flight 814 hijacking. Whereas reading the article about Aircraft hijacking people most often go to Wikipedia articles on TWA Flight 847, List of aircraft hijackings, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 702, September 11 attacks and Entebbe raid.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

zh: 劫机
zhminnan: Kiap-ki

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