Airline hijackings 1945-2015
ACTUALITEIT - A plane from Egyptian Airlines was hijacked today. Once it was a favorite way of terrorists and other people to get attention or money.
At the peak in 1969 86 planes were hijacked
These days it's no longer so common, the data from Aviation Safety Network shows. At the peak in 1969 86 planes were hijacked. Since 2002 the average is just 3.5 per year.
Even though a lot of hijackings occured between the sixties and 2001 not a lot of casualties fell. Untill 2001 that is.
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People killed by terrorism per year in Western Europe 1970-2015
ACTUALITEIT - Because of the recent terrorism attacks in Europe we've plotted the GTD data and most recent figures in several graphs for Western Europe.
Toenemend terrorisme wereldwijd
DATA VAN DE DAG - Na analyse van de nieuwe gegevens in de Global Terrorism Database komt een stijging van terrorisme wereldwijd naar voren. Vooral in het Midden-Oosten en zuidwest Azië waren veel aanslagen in 2014.