Mauritanian plane hijacked to W. Sahara: police
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An Air Mauritania Boeing 737 passenger plane on an internal flight from the capital Nouakchott to the northern port of Nouadhibou was hijacked on Thursday to Western Sahara, Mauritanian police said.
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A fast-thinking pilot with passengers in cahoots fooled a gunman who had hijacked a jetliner flying from Africa to the Canary Islands, braking hard upon landing then quickly accelerating to knock the man down ...Comment
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Description: A French plane departs Amman, Jordan, carrying Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to Paris for urgent medical treatment.
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LAS PALMAS, Spain  - An Air Mauritania Boeing 737 passenger plane was hijacked on an internal flight on Thursday and flew to the Spanish Canary Islands where the hijacker was arrested, Spanish officials and media said.
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U.S. officials said a name on the passenger list matched that of a suspected member of a Moroccan militant group.
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A Turkish passenger plane flying from  the Albanian capital Tirana to Istanbul was hijacked over  Greece and later landed in Italy, Greek and Italian officials  said on Tuesday.
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MADRID, Spain -- An armed man who hijacked a Mauritanian plane to Spain's Canary Islands Thursday was overpowered by passengers and crew before he was arrested by police who boarded the plane shortly after landing, government and airline officials said.
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Extremists in Algeria may be plotting to attack a commercial airliner carrying Western workers, the U.S. Embassy in the North African country said.
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Spanish police arrested an armed Mauritanian man seeking political asylum in France who had hijacked an Air Mauritania aircraft with 79 people on board and forced it to land in the Canary Islands.
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An Air Mauritania passenger jet is hijacked after taking off from the capital, Nouakchott, officials say.
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LAS PALMAS, Spain  - Spanish police arrested the suspected hijacker of a Mauritanian plane who was knocked over by a hard landing and overpowered by passengers on Thursday, a source close to the Mauritanian presidency said.
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Passengers on a hijacked Air Mauritania  plane ended the ordeal when they stormed the cockpit and beat  up the lone gunman after the aircraft landed in Spain's Canary  Islands on Thursday night, Spanish police said.
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A passenger jet was hijacked Thursday shortly after takeoff from Mauritania and flown to the Canary Islands, where security forces raided the plane and arrested a suspect, Spain's Foreign Ministry said.
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LAS PALMAS, Spain  - Spanish emergency services said several people had been wounded by gunfire in the hijacking of an Air Mauritania plane on Thursday.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan Aug. 27, 2004 - Armed with knives, Eritrean deportees hijacked a plane that left Libya carrying about 80 fellow Eritreans and forced it to land Friday in the Sudanese capital before surrendering to security forces, officials said.
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Security at Indian airports has been increased after intelligence reports that Pakistan-based militants could try to hijack an aircraft, a senior police official said on Saturday.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Armed with knives, Eritrean deportees hijacked a plane that left Libya carrying about 80 fellow Eritreans and forced it to land yesterday in the Sudanese capital before surrendering to security forces, officials said.