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| Alitalia hijacking attempt fails |
| 2011-04-25 |
| [Al Jazeera] A man who tried to hijack a Gay Paree-Rome flight and take it to Libya was overpowered by cabin crew during the flight and tossed in the clink when the plane arrived in the Italian capital, officials said. Italian media sources said that the attempted hijacking on Sunday was carried out by Valeriy Tolmachev, a 48-year-old adviser to the Kazakh delegation at the Gay Paree-based UN cultural organisation, UNESCO. A statement from Alitalia airlines said the suspect had assaulted a flight attendant "and asked that the plane be taken to Tripoli". Other attendants on flight AZ329 then overpowered the suspect, who was "clearly agitated." A doctor on board the flight sedated Tolmachev, and the captain radioed police, who tossed in the clink him when the plane landed, the statement said. Italian media reports quoting police sources said the suspect was armed with what appeared to be a small knife. The flight attendant was taken to a first aid station at Rome airport for treatment of minor injuries. No other injuries were reported. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 What percentage of UNESCO and other UN workers are members in good standing of organizations on the US Terror Watch List? |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2011-04-25 11:01 |