Passengers overpower hijacker on Norway-Turkey flight

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.

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"sure- take the plane".

ETA: Good for them, by the way.

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

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

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

I hope the Turks keep him.

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

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