Alitalia hijacking attempt fails
Cabin crew overpowers a knife-wielding man who demanded that a Paris-Romeflight be diverted to Libya's capital Tripoli. Last Modified: 24 Apr 2011 23:15 http://english.aljazeera.net//news/europe/2011/04/2011424224545175931.html <http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2011/04/2011424224545175931.html> The suspected hijacker, who was "clearly agitated", had assaulted a flight attendant [REUTERS] A man who tried to hijack a Paris-Rome flight and take it to Libya was overpowered by cabin crew during the flight and arrested when the plane arrived in the Italian capital, officials said. Italian media reported that the attempted hijacking on Sunday was carried out by Valeriy Tolmachev, a 48-year-old adviser to the Kazakh delegation at the Paris-based UN cultural organisation, UNESCO. A statement from Alitalia airlines said the suspect had assaulted a flight attendant "and asked that the plane be taken to Tripoli." Other attendants on flight AZ329 then overpowered the suspect, who was "clearly agitated." A doctor on board the flight then sedated Tolmachev, and the captain radioed police, who arrested him when the plane landed, the statement said. Italian media reports quoting police sources said the suspect was armed with what appeared to be a small knife. The flight attendant was taken to a first aid station at Rome airport for treatment of minor injuries. No other injuries were reported. ========== Kazakh man stopped from hijacking plane to Libya Posted: 25 April 2011 0627 hrs http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/1124657/1/.html ROME: Cabin crew overpowered a Kazakh man on Sunday after he tried to hijack a Paris-Rome plane and have it land in Tripoli by threatening an air hostess, Italy's ANSA news agency reported. Valeriy Tolmashev, who appeared very agitated, tried to hijack the Alitalia flight around 1930 GMT. The flight arrived in Rome's Fiumicino airport at 2005 GMT and the apparently unbalanced man was handed over to police, ANSA said, citing Italian border police. All the passengers were safe. Tolmashev approached the hostess and held a small knife or nail file against her neck, according to different witnesses. He said he wanted to hijack the plane, with 131 passengers on board, to the Libyan capital. The 48-year-old was quickly overpowered by four stewards and passengers who wrestled him to the floor before frogmarching him back to his seat. A doctor on board administered a sedative to the would-be hijacker. Informed sources were quoted as saying the man, whose motives were not known, was an adviser to Kazakhstan's delegation at UNESCO, the UN educational, scientific and cultural organisation, in Paris. He had not reserved a hotel in Rome and could not give an address where he was to stay in the Italian capital. Checks were under way with the French police. Tolmashev, who had no police record or known links with international terrorism, according to the Italian inquiry team, was under border police custody at the airport. A group of passengers was to be questioned to help the inquiry. But the cabin staff's intervention was so quick and effective at the front of the plane that passengers at the back did not notice anything. The hostess, traumatised and slightly bruised in the neck, was treated at the airport. Her condition was not giving rise to concern, Alitalia officials said. - AFP/de [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. 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