Airline Passenger Attacks Pilots with Axe
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A passenger on a Norwegian commuter plane attacked both pilots and at least one passenger with an axe as the aircraft was landing today.
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A passenger attacked two pilots aboard a Norwegian passenger plane with an axe but the craft was later able to land, police said, amidst concerns over lax security on the country's local flights and at regional airports.
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OSLO - An axe-wielding passenger who attacked two pilots aboard a Norwegian passenger plane in an apparent but failed bid to crash it has been taken to a psychiatric ward, police said yesterday.
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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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A trans-Atlantic flight is diverted to Belfast after a drunken passenger assaults two stewardesses.
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TENERIFE, Canary Islands, Feb. 16 -- A fast-thinking pilot with passengers in cahoots fooled 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...
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Â· Man had to be stopped, says commander Â· Agitation displayed by victim added to suspicion
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The two pilotes and two passengers were injured when a man attacked them with an axe as a Kato Air Dornier 228 was about to land at Bodoe Airport around noon Wednesday.
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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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The BBC reports that Bexx Air, which offered tickets to Germany and Belgium from 50 euros ( 34; $61), believes it is being victimised.
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An Algerian asylum seeker with an axe injured the two pilots on a Norwegian internal flight yesterday before being dragged screaming from the cockpit by fellow passengers.
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A knife-wielding woman tried to hijack a regional domestic flight in New Zealand Friday, stabbing both pilots and threatening to blow up the twin-propeller plane before she was subdued, police said.
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NORRISTOWN, Pa. - A drunken pilot who buzzed his plane near a nuclear power plant and came near six commercial airliners was sentenced to six to 23 months in prison on Tuesday.  John V.
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Federal authorities Tuesday used the Patriot Act to charge a man with pointing a laser beam at an airplane overhead and temporarily blinding the pilot and co-pilot.
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Aer Lingus cops flak after banning the use of Irish during in-flight announcements on its Belfast route.
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WASHINGTON - A woman was charged Wednesday with sexual assault after an altercation with a flight attendant on an airplane flying from Charlotte, N.C., to London, an official said.
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A man is arrested after attacking two pilots and a passenger with an axe on an internal flight in Norway.