Passengers overpower hijacker on Norway-Turkey flight

[alp227]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - Passengers aboard a Turkish Airlines flight from Oslo overpowered a would-be hijacker as the plane landed at Istanbul airport on Wednesday, fellow passengers told Turkish media.

Police said the man was a Turk who had demanded that the plane return to Norway. His motive was unclear. According to the Turkish Dogan news agency, he tried to force his way into the cockpit of the plane saying: "I have a bomb."

The pilot notified emergency services at Istanbul's Ataturk airport. Passengers were quickly taken off after landing and the man was arrested and the bomb found to be a fake.

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Police said a passenger had been sitting on top of the hijacker when they entered the plane, a Dogan journalist said. Police identified the hijacker as Cuma Yasar.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7045B720110105

[Divine Discontent]

1. WTG passengers!

[Warren DeMontague]

2. I've been saying for almost 10 years. After 9-11, no passengers anywhere are going to be, like,

"sure- take the plane".

ETA: Good for them, by the way.

[joshcryer]

3. Yep, same here.

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[eridani]

5. Exactly. Potential terrorists targeting planes are in the position of

--the second guy to think of the Pet Rock idea.

[Kolesar]

8. The terrorists just buy airplanes by the hundreds now-a-days

F-22s, B-2s, Predators and Grim Reapers.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. *

:eyes:

[DeSwiss]

6. K&R

- I have a feeling he's going to http://motherjones.com/politics/2001/01/turkish-prison-massacres">wish he'd stayed in Oslo.

[leftynyc]

7. Great job passengers

I hope the Turks keep him.

[Lasher]

9. Police Say Would-Be Hijacker Of Turkish Plane Was Mentally Ill

Turkish media reports say police interrogating the would-be hijacker of a Turkish passenger plane today found he was suffering from psychological problems.

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Norwegian media said the man had been living in an asylum seekers' center in southwest Norway.

http://www.rferl.org/content/turkish_plane_hijacking/2268820.html

[LeftishBrit]

11. Good for them!

Glad that it turned out not to be a real bomb; but of course there was no way they could know that.