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Hijacker Tries To Takeover Ukraine To Turkey Flight, Wanted To Go To Sochi (Video)

Friday, February 7, 2014 12:41
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Turkey scrambled an F-16 fighter jet to accompany a passenger plane arriving in Istanbul from Ukraine after a bomb threat was made by a passenger demanding to go to the Winter Olympics venue of Sochi, Turkish officials said. Television footage showed the Pegasus Airlines flight from the Ukrainian city of Kharkov arriving in Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport. “The cabin crew managed to convince him that they were flying to Sochi but in the meantime they had pressed the alert button,” our correspondent said.

This is interesting.  It will be fascinating to see what the motives were for this.  Everyone involved is safe and sound and the hijacker has been arrested.  The Olympics have just begun and already we have this incident.  Yikes.

 

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