Axeman strikes on passenger plane
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An Algerian asylum-seeker attacked two pilots and a passenger with an axe on an internal flight in Norway yesterday as the plane came in to land.
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TENERIFE, Canary Islands _ A fast-thinking pilot with passengers in cahoots fooled a hijacker by braking hard upon landing, then accelerating to knock the man down.Comment
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OSLO  - A seemingly unstable passenger attacked two pilots aboard a Norwegian passenger plane with an axe but the aircraft was later able to land, amid concerns over lax security on the country&#39;s local flights and at regional airports.
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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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AN axe-wielding passenger has attacked two pilots aboard a Norwegian passenger plane in an apparent but failed bid to crash it. Police said the man had been taken to a psychiatric unit.
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Two armed men hijacked a bus carrying more than two dozen passengers early Wednesday, demanding to be taken to the airport and put on a plane to Russia, officials said. A hostage said the men had dynamite.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand - While at a check-in counter at Auckland International Airport, Dale Rodel was really bugged. No, really: He was bitten by a scorpion. "I felt this stabbing like a piece of glass. At first I thought it was a spider so wasn't too worried.
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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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HONG KONG - A Hong Kong man whose right hand was chopped off by two assailants in a busy restaurant might have been wrongly targeted, a newspaper reported Sunday.    Two men wearing surgical masks walked up to Lee Kwok-sum as he was having afternoon tea with a female friend on Friday, and one of them chopped off his right hand with a large knife...
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OSLO, Norway  - A passenger on a commuter plane in northern Norway attacked both pilots and at least one passenger with an axe as the aircraft was landing Wednesday, police said.
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An airport terminal was temporarily shut down Wednesday after a passenger aboard a flight preparing to depart bolted from the plane and triggered an alarm, authorities said.
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How can a single unarmed passenger hijack an international airliner?
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A passenger on a small commuter plane in northern Norway attacked both pilots and at least one passenger with an ax as the aircraft was landing Wednesday, police said.
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A woman on a New Zealand plane stabs at least one of the two pilots and threatens to blow it up, police say.
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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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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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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