In Popular Culture
The events of the hijacking were related in an account by American survivor Jackie Nink Pflug, who had been shot in the head, on the Biography Channel television program I Survived..., which aired April 13, 2009. She also related details leading to the flight and the attack in her 2001 book, Miles to Go Before I Sleep. The incident was also chronicled in an Interpol Investigates episode, "Terror in the Skies", aired by the National Geographic Channel.
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