Washington, playing a dispatcher on the New York subway system, finds himself negotiating with a hijacker (John Travolta) who has taken over a train and is now demanding a ransom (a paltry ten million bucks, which tells you that a twist is on the way).

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Katz notes that this can be especially problematic when the latecomer or hijacker is a senior manager and the meeting leader is a junior staffer.

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Teusink adds that the prototype slide hijacker he built has a range of only 30 feet, but that other publicly available hardware would allow a hacker to scan for wireless presenters within a full kilometer.

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Not only did the US nab Achille Lauro hijacker Abu Abbas, but the coalition attacked a terrorist group that killed American military attaches and backed the takeover of the US Embassy in Iran in the late 1970s.

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