Reply #5: Alitalia hijacking attempt fails {tried to be taken to Libya} [View All]

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Source: Al Jazeera

Alitalia hijacking attempt fails

Cabin crew overpowers a knife-wielding man who demanded that a Paris-Rome flight be diverted to Libya's capital Tripoli.
Last Modified: 24 Apr 2011 23:15

A man who tried to hijack a Paris-Rome flight and take it to Libya was overpowered by cabin crew during the flight and arrested when the plane arrived in the Italian capital, officials said.

Italian media reported that the attempted hijacking on Sunday was carried out by Valeriy Tolmachev, a 48-year-old adviser to the Kazakh delegation at the Paris-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 then sedated Tolmachev, and the captain radioed police, who arrested him when the plane landed, the statement said.


Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2011/04/2011424224545175931.html

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Quick reaction by the crew to avoid a crisis!