Turkish airliner hijacked

elompi · Post by **elompi** » 03 Oct 2006, 17:59

A Turkish commercial airliner is hijacked over Greek airspace on route to Istanbul, Turkey from Tirana, Albania and lands in Brindisi, Italy with 107 passengers after being intercepted by Greek military airplaines. Hijackers protest to a Papal visit to Turkey...
source: NTV

TexasGuy · Post by **TexasGuy** » 03 Oct 2006, 18:23

Full story here........

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061003/ap_on_re_eu/hijack

LX-LGX · Post by **LX-LGX** » 03 Oct 2006, 21:53

it's all over, passengers and crew are safe.

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europ ... index.html

So it's time for the next debate: airports are not safe yet.

earthman · Post by **earthman** » 04 Oct 2006, 08:57

The airplane took off from Tirana, I'm sure you can smuggle an elephant on board there without anyone noticing. Anyway, he was unarmed, so what has that got to do with airport security?