Three passengers aboard a KLM flight from Amsterdam to Rome were detained Sunday after one of them allegedly said the aircraft was being hijacked, then quickly said it was all a joke. "Yes, it was a joke, but in these times we don't find that kind of joke so funny," KLM spokesman Bart Koster told The Associated Press in Amsterdam. "We handed them directly over to Italian police and it's up to them what else will happen, if anything." The Italian news agency Apcom said the men were believed to be Egyptian, although their identities were still being checked.
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Apcom, citing investigators, said that toward the end of Flight 1501 one of the three men walked toward the cockpit and said "This is a hijacking," and immediately explained that he was joking.
"Stick 'em up, Mahmoud! Just joking, of course. Book 'im, Danno!"
"That's a joke, too, right?"
"Danno doesn't have a sense of humor." |
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