An airline stuns passengers by asking for £20,000 to complete the final leg of their journey to the UK. The demand was "unusual to say the least", the UK Civil Aviation Authority tells Channel 4 News. The plane, returning from Amritsar in India to Birmingham and carrying around 180 passengers, had already been delayed by several days.
But when it stopped in Vienna to re-fuel, passengers were stunned when they were told they had to hand over around £20,000 to fund the final leg of the trip. Austrian police were called to the stand-off in Vienna, which ended when passengers were escorted to cash machines to draw out the money. Many had to borrow from each other to reach the sum total.
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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation had been searching for him since his August 1970 escape from Bayside State Prison in New Jersey, where he was jailed for a 1962 murder.
For two years, Wright disappeared into the Black Liberation Army, a violent group of African American communists.
Then on July 31, 1972, he was among five adults who hijacked a Delta flight flying from Detroit to Miami.
They demanded a one-million-dollar ransom for the passengers and when this was paid, they forced the plane to fly to Boston where it refuelled and took on another pilot hostage, then crossed the Atlantic to Algeria.
The hijackers sought asylum there. Although the plane and money were seized by the Algerians and returned to the United States, the hijackers were only briefly detained.
In May 1976 French police captured four of the gang -- but not Wright.
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not a cent of bailout for Portugal. No NATO cooperation. Obama will predict their future better economy as one of his "EU picks". See if that gets their attention?
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
