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| Subject: Statist pilot hijacks statist airline, seeks asylum Tue Feb 18, 2014 2:05 am | |
| A co-pilot who hijacked an Ethiopian Airlines flight to seek asylum in Switzerland on Monday surrendered to police at Geneva airport after jumping out of a cockpit window and scrambling down an emergency rope.
The airliner's second-in-command, named by Ethiopia as Hailemedhin Abera Tegegn, 31, took control of the plane when the pilot left the cockpit to use the toilet. He then sent a coded signal announcing he had hijacked his own aircraft.
With the airliner on the tarmac, an unarmed Mr Hailemedhin made his exit via a cockpit window, without harming passengers or crew, police spokesman Pierre Grangean told a news conference.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-incidents/copilot-hijacker-surrenders-seeks-asylum-20140217-32vy7.html#ixzz2tefYoaTM
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