In 1999, a lone man hijacked a jumbo jet to fly it like a video game
Driven by a lifelong obsession with flight simulators, a lone man hijacked a Boeing 747 in Tokyo to test his virtual skills on a massive jet carrying over 500 unsuspecting passengers.
In 1999, Yuji Nishizawa boarded All Nippon Airways Flight 61 with a hidden kitchen knife and a singular, chilling goal. He forced his way into the cockpit and fatally stabbed the captain to take control of the aircraft. Nishizawa was not a terrorist with political motives; he was a flight simulator enthusiast who simply wanted to fly a real jumbo jet like a video game.
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