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Turkish man's plan to hijack airliner squashed by passenger
2011-01-06
According to passenger accounts in the media, the attempted hijacking began shortly before the Boeing 737 plane was going to land in Istanbul on Wednesday. The masked suspect, later identified in news reports as 40-year-old Yasar Cuma or Cuma Yasar, claimed to be holding a bomb (later found to be fake) and tried to break into the cockpit, demanding that the plane return to its originating point in Oslo, Norway.
Good thing for him he wasn't heading to the US or he would have been caught by the TSA. As soon as the plane entered US airspace.

Picture of the rather wobbly would-be terrorist at link.
Posted by:gorb

#3  in the US, his widow and orphans would sue the passenger. Dude says he has a bomb, I doubt most would quit at "subdued"
Posted by: Frank G   2011-01-06 18:19  

#2  In the US, he would sue the passenger(s) who sat on him for inflicting injury and distress.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2011-01-06 18:14  

#1  HA! What a maroon!
Posted by: DarthVader   2011-01-06 16:37  

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