Bearded Spaniard prof. forced off plane
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A Spanish university professor with a long beard and dark complexion said Thursday he was briefly forced off an airliner during a layover on the Spanish island of Mallorca by passengers who feared he was an Islamic terrorist.
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A Teesside man tells of his upset after being forced to give up his holiday because space could not be found for him on a plane.
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An Algerian-born man attacked two pilots  and a passenger with an axe on a domestic Norwegian flight  Wednesday in an unexplained assault that police said could be  linked to his asylum status.
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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 ...Comment
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A passenger jet was hijacked Thursday shortly after takeoff from Mauritania, but the incident ended after the plane landed in the Canary Islands, where it was raided by security forces and a suspect was ...Comment
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An Algerian-born man attacked two pilots and a passenger with an axe on a domestic Norwegian flight on Wednesday in an unexplained assault that police said could be linked to his asylum status.
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An Air Mauritania Boeing 737 passenger plane was hijacked on Thursday to Western Sahara, Mauritanian police said.
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Passengers who were freed from a hijacked Air Mauritania Boeing 737 passenger plane are transported in a bus after it landed at Gando airport in Las Palmas on the island of Gran Canaria in Spain's Canary ...Comment
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Madrid: Spain coach Luis Aragones landed himself in trouble on Wednesday after appearing to make a racist comment about French striker Thierry Henry during a training session.
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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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MADRID, Feb. 15 -- An armed man who hijacked a Mauritanian plane Thursday was overpowered by passengers and crew members before he was arrested by police who boarded the plane shortly after it landed in Spain's Canary Islands, government and airline officials said.
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By STEVE HAWKES  A RYANAIR boss had to be saved by police after a publicity stunt in Spain almost sparked a riot.   Sinead Finn, head of marketing, offered free tickets to anyone turning up in Barcelona's main square on Monday with placards criticising Iberia or supporting Ryanair.
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Spain's celebrated anti-terror judge Baltazar Garzon is reportedly to take a break for an unspecified period from his high court job to lecture in the United States.
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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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A BUDGET airline boss had to be rescued by police as a publicity stunt turned into a near riot.  Ryanair had promised free tickets to anyone turning up in Barcelona's Plaza de Catalunya with placards supporting them or knocking rivals Iberia.
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LAS PALMAS, Spain  - Passengers overpowered a suspected armed hijacker who had commandeered a Mauritanian plane on Thursday when he was knocked off his feet during a hard landing, a source close to the Mauritanian presidency said.
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TENERIFE, Canary Islands -- A fast-thinking pilot with passengers in cahoots foiled a hijacker by braking hard upon landing, then accelerating to knock the man down. When he fell, flight attendants threw boiling water in his face, and about 10 people pounced on him, Spanish officials said yesterday.