From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Wed Sep 27 2000 - 12:21:46 MDT
Got this off the news wire today:
BEIJING (Reuters) - The crew of a Xinhua Airline Boeing 737 jet foiled a hijack
attempt Wednesday during a flight from Inner Mongolia to Beijing and the lone
hijacker was killed, airport officials said.
``The passengers are all safe and the hijacker was killed,'' said an official
at Jinan airport in Shandong province, where the plane landed after being
hijacked on a flight from Baotou, the second largest city in Inner Mongolia.
``We heard he was beaten with a mobile phone by passengers,'' said a second
airport official. The first official said all 143 passengers aboard were
unharmed and one of the pilots had been taken to hospital but that it was not
clear how badly he had been hurt.
end.
Let that be a lesson to you know. I think we need a new form of martial arts,
one that teaches use of everyday high tech devices as weapons: laptops,
cellphones, pagers, ebooks, laser pointers, etc..... ;)
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