Crew members detained a Pakistani national who tried to enter the cockpit of a plane traveling to Pakistan from the United Arab Emirates on Thursday, a day after the prime minister revealed a hijacking plot against commercial flights on the route, officials said.
| Dumbass. Doesn't he read the papers? They don't have that kind of information in the Koran, y'know... |
Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said crew members arrested one Pakistani man on a flight from Dubai to Islamabad, but could not confirm whether the man was intending to hijack the plane. "The man told investigators that he wanted to tell the pilot he should increase the speed of the plane as it was going too slow," Ahmed told The Associated Press. He said authorities were still investigating.
| "Driver? Driver? Peddle faster, wouldja? I got a meeting to go to!" |
| Perhaps the toilets weren't working ... |
An intelligence official in the southern city of Karachi said on condition of anonymity that the man was unarmed and was overpowered by crew members on Aeroasia flight E4553, which landed safely in Islamabad.
| So he was more likely a nut than a really, truly, hijacker... |
The man was handed over to the Airport Security Force there and was being beaten with sticks questioned, the official said. The arrest came a day after the Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali revealed that Pakistani intelligence agents had uncovered a plot by a small band of terrorists to hijack and possibly blow up a plane bound for the UAE from Pakistan. The threat prompted Pakistan to put its airports on "red alert." Jamali told AP that authorities believe there was a group of about four to six people who wanted to hijack a plane.
| But this guy wasn't one of them. |
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