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Hijack threat disrupts Air China flight
(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2004-07-26 13:55
An Air China passenger plane, with 108 passengers, had to disrupt its regular
flight Monday morning from Beijing to central China's Changsha City, and made an
emergency landing in Zhengzhou City due to a hijacking threat.
The jetliner, en route from Beijing to
Changsha, landed safely Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan
Province, an official at that airport was quoted as saying.
The man, Yang Jinsong, 32, is a librarian at Xiangtan University in Hunan
Province and has a record of mental illness. After the takeoff, he walked
toward the fore compartment and shouted he wanted to hijack the plane to the
Republic of Korea.
According to police investigation, Yang claimed around 10 minutes after
take-off that his companions had some sulfuric acid and would throw it on other
passengers unless the plane headed for the Republic of Korea.
A small team was formed
immediately to handle the case and two plainclothes policemen were sent to
negotiate with Yang after the emergency landing in Zhengzhou, said Liu Guoqing,
senior official with the Henan police.
Yang was captured at 10:20 a.m.
The police then examined the plane and other passengers but didn't find any
conspirators or sulfuric acid as Yang had claimed.
A Zhengzhou airport official said the passengers had left the aircraft
safely. The plane was not damaged, the official said.
An official at the airport in Beijing said the plane took off at 8:40am and
had been scheduled to land in Hunan at 10:30am. She said 108 passengers had
checked in for the flight, but did not know how many crew members were aboard.
"It is not that serious, we even cannot define it as a 'hijacking'," a
spokeswoman from CAAC said but gave no further details.
Reports indicate the man had no weapon or explosive and shouted his hijacking
intention in the cabin and threathened to hijack the jetline to South Korea. He
was later overpowered by security officers and was taken off the plane at
Zhengzhou. It is reported this man has record of suffering from mental
disorders.
The plane, passengers and luggage would be checked again at the
Zhengzhou airport.
A Changsha airport official said the incident was
resolved and the plane later left Zhengzhou for Changsha.
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