Posted on 02/15/2007 11:05:28 AM PST by HAL9000
I'd heard that while in custody he'd confessed to the Jon Benet murder and was seeking extradition to the US.
< /s >
According to official sources, those were the passengers that managed to reduce to the kidnapper.
That sounds like the passengers overpowered the hijacker, and kept him subdued until the plane landed.
lmfao!
21:02 the kidnapper of airplane MR465 of Air Mauritania, stopped this behind schedule by the Forces of Security in the airport of Great Canary, is a mauritano of origin saharaui and carried two pistols, one of them with a bullet in the firing chamber. Sources of the investigation informed into which the kidnapper acted single and of which, during the outcome of the kidnapping, they were wounded from character he weighs several people due to the haste in the evacuation.
Coincidentally, I am in the middle of reading my daughter a chapter of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland every night.
According to official sources, those were the passengers that managed to reduce to the kidnapper.
I hope he learned his "lessen".
"Police in the Canary Islands..."
They're just pining for the fjords, after smoking too much Mauritania.
I don't think you can pull a side door open at altitude when pressurized. The old DC-9 rear door could, I think.
Apparently some passengers opened the door after the plane landed and jumped out.
"Interestingly, Western Sahara was the last country that I hadn't heard of"
< Rod Serling voice: >
"Next step....the Twilight Zone."
...opened the door after the plane landed and jumped out, [into the emptiness....]!
Yeah. imagery is a little different than the autotranslation!
Mauritanian hijack 'ends safely'
BBC ^ | Thursday, 15 February 2007, 20:53 GMT | Staff
Posted on 02/15/2007 4:41:49 PM CST by Paleo Conservative
Reuters -
Hijacker of Mauritanian plane arrested in Canaries...
"When the pilot landed he deliberately braked very hard. The man fell to the ground and was jumped on by passengers. He fired two bullets but there are no serious injuries," the Mauritanian source told Reuters.
...
Associated Press -
Plane hijacking ends in Canary IslandsMADRID, Spain - An armed man who hijacked a Mauritanian plane to Spain's Canary Islands Thursday was overpowered by passengers and crew before he was arrested by police who boarded the plane shortly after landing, government and airline officials said.
The man was overwhelmed by passengers and arrested when police stormed the Air Mauritania 737 shortly after the aircraft landed at Gando military base on Gran Canaria island, Spanish Interior Ministry official Carolina Darias said.
...
Mohamed Ould Mohamed Cheikh, Mauritania's top police official, said the hijacker was a Moroccan from Western Sahara who wanted to immigrate to France.
The man had tried many times to obtain a visa at the French embassy in the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott, where he had lived for a few months, Mohamed said. The hijacker's identity wasn't given.
...
According to CNN now, two passengers disarmed the Hijacker who was armed with two handguns. Glad to hear that passengers worldwide will take responsibility. Cheers for them.
No. . .unless it was the perp hijacker. . .
The southern third was claimed by Mauritania for approx. 5 years.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.