Air Force officials confirmed at a press briefing at the airport around 8 pm that the
hijacker had been detained and was being interrogated
Fear is a map
hijacker because when you activate the Jerk, you shut off the Thinker, wasting your valuable brain resources on avoiding that fear instead of pursuing your goals.
Egypt's Interior Ministry identified the
hijacker as 58-year-old Seif Eddin Mustafa.
Most of those on board were freed shortly after the plane landed at Larnaca airport on the Mediterranean island at 8.50am, before the
hijacker held seven people hostage for a number of hours.
The Cypriot foreign ministry announced that the
hijacker was arrested at about 2.00pm, more than seven hours after the incident began.
Police later said there was only one
hijacker, Jose Flores, 44, who later told police yesterday's date - 9-9-09 - is the satanic number 666 turned upside down.
Summary: The
hijackers of a Sudanese plane forced to land in to Libya have surrendered, Libyan officials said Wednesday.
The nine Yodo
hijackers defected to North Korea and are believed to have participated in North Korea's state crimes and other illegal operations.
The Italian authorities had initially said there was one
hijacker on board the Turkish Airlines flight from Tirana to Istanbul, the Turkish justice ministry then caused some confusion yesterday (4 October) by claiming there were two
hijackers.
Turkish Airlines 737-400 hijacking came under increased scrutiny yesterday as it became clear the
hijacker acted alone and was able to penetrate the flight deck despite possessing no weapons, a striking security breach given the institution of post-9/11 measures such as hardened cockpit doors and the restriction of passenger access to cockpits.