Hijacked Turkish plane forced to land in Italy
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BRINDISI, Italy  - Two Turkish hijackers seeking to send a message to Pope Benedict seized a Turkish passenger plane flying from the Albanian capital Tirana to Istanbul on Tuesday and diverted it to Italy.
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Italian officials said Wednesday they intend to prosecute a Turkish man for hijacking an airliner despite his appeal for political asylum on the grounds that he is being persecuted as a Christian in Muslim ...Comment
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Two foreign gunmen carrying explosives  hijacked a Greek bus with 26 passengers on Wednesday and  demanded to go to Russia, a freed hostage said.
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&quot;Cypriot justice minister granted permission for the plane to land in Larnaca and mobilised bomb squads, bomb detectors and local civil aviation officials...&quot;. (BBC NEWS) - Israeli jet fighters have prevented
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BRINDISI, Italy, Oct. 3 -- A Turkish man hijacked a jetliner carrying 113 people on an Albania-to-Turkey flight Tuesday and forced it to land in southern Italy, where he surrendered and released all the passengers unharmed, officials said.
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The two hijackers of the Turkish Airlines flight that was forced to land in Italy on Tuesday are ready to surrender, Italy's civil aviation agency said.
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A bomb threat that mentioned Iraq forced a New York-bound Greek airliner to make an emergency landing Sunday at London's Stansted Airport escorted by military jets, authorities said.
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A man who hijacked a Turkish Airlines flight on Tuesday was unarmed and threatened to blow up the plane if the pilot did not divert the flight to Italy, officials and crew said on Wednesday.
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An Air Mauritania passenger plane that was hijacked after it left the Mauritanian capital has landed in Spain's Canary Islands, according to Spanisn media reports.
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A Turkish airliner is reportedly hijacked in Greek airspace.
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A Turkish plane was hijacked on Tuesday as it traveled from Tirana, Albania to Istanbul, Turkey, according to a Turkish Airlines spokesman on Turkish television.
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Mohamed Ahmed, one of the passengers from the hijacked Air Mauritania passenger plane, speaks to journalists at the airport in Las Palmas on the Canary island of Gran Cararia, Spain, in the early hours of ...Comment
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A Mauritanian pilot made a rough landing so passengers and crew could overpower a hijacker, Spanish officials say.
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Hijackers seeking to send a message to Pope Benedict seized control of a Turkish passenger plane flying from the Albanian capital Tirana to Istanbul on Tuesday, and were forced by interceptor jets to land in Italy.
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A bomb threat forced a passenger plane to divert to a London airport under military escort for an emergency landing. The Olympic Airways flight from Athens to New York&#39;s JFK airport was carrying 301 passengers
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Two foreign gunmen who hijacked a Greek bus with 26 passengers have demanded a $1 million (520,000 pound) ransom and a plane out of the country.
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Two foreign gunmen hijacked a Greek bus carrying 26 passengers on Wednesday and demanded to go to Athens airport to leave the country.