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Pilot outwits highjacker

Ariddia
18-02-2007, 03:56
The pilot of a hijacked Air Mauritania plane deliberately made a rough landing so passengers and crew could tackle the gunman, Spanish officials say.

[...]

The gunman seized the jet soon after take-off from the capital, Nouakchott, and demanded to be flown to France to seek asylum, officials say.

One report said a gun was held to the pilot's head during the hijack.

But as the pilot approached Gando military base near Las Palmas international airport, he used the plane's intercom system to tell passengers in French of his plan, said AP quoting a Spanish official.

"The pilot and his colleagues decided to abruptly apply brakes on landing to throw off-balance the hijacker, who was hurled to the floor by the jerk and was quickly overpowered before being handed over to the Spanish police force," a Mauritanian official told AFP news agency.

One report said flight attendants threw boiling water at him and around 10 people overpowered him.

The pilot, named by Air Mauritania as Ahmedou Mohamed Lemine, had urged crew members and men to sit in the front rows, ready to act, while women and children were warned to move to the rear, AP said.

[...]

The jet returned home on Friday and the crew members were given a heroes' welcome.

Now that took some guts.
Neo-Erusea
18-02-2007, 03:58
That's awesome. Good to hear.
Maraque
18-02-2007, 04:02
Lol, boiling water hurling flight attendants FTW.
Siap
18-02-2007, 04:03
Ballsy, yet clever, and in my opinion, the right thing to do.
Heikoku
18-02-2007, 04:13
Nicely executed.
Anti-Social Darwinism
18-02-2007, 04:45
Quick thinking on the part of all.
Utracia
18-02-2007, 04:55
Won't anyone think of the poor gunman? Having boiled water thrown on you must hurt like hell... :p

Good job, all on board
The Jade Star
18-02-2007, 05:33
Won't anyone think of the poor gunman? Having boiled water thrown on you must hurt like hell... :p

Good job, all on board

Thats what he gets for hijacking a plane full of Frenchies.
Heikoku
18-02-2007, 06:08
Won't anyone think of the poor gunman? Having boiled water thrown on you must hurt like hell... :p

Good job, all on board

He should consider himself lucky. If he were on a Spanish plane it'd be boiling olive oil. :p
Dishonorable Scum
18-02-2007, 14:47
He should consider himself lucky. If he were on a Spanish plane it'd be boiling olive oil. :p

And on a Russian plane he'd have had about a hundred vodka bottles smashed on his head. (Empty, of course; the Russians never waste good vodka, or even bad vodka.)
Soluis
18-02-2007, 15:14
That was swish.
SimNewtonia
18-02-2007, 15:48
Pure class. :D
Dobbsworld
18-02-2007, 16:01
*waits for the inevitable re-affirmation of the shoddy "cheese-eating surrender monkey stereotype" to be vioced*
Ifreann
18-02-2007, 16:02
That was a pretty bad idea, but everybody involved has the same number of holes as they had at the start of the flight, so it worked out ok.
Utracia
18-02-2007, 16:14
He should consider himself lucky. If he were on a Spanish plane it'd be boiling olive oil. :p

So what, the Germans would dunk the guy in a barrel full of beer? Or maybe sauerkraut? :D
Dobbsworld
18-02-2007, 16:16
So what, the Germans would dunk the guy in a barrel full of beer? Or maybe sauerkraut? :D

My guess is that Brits would've dunked him in a bucket full of eels. And if it'd been a Canadian flight, well - maple syrup is pretty sticky stuff...
Arinola
18-02-2007, 16:20
My guess is that Brits would've dunked him in a bucket full of eels. And if it'd been a Canadian flight, well - maple syrup is pretty sticky stuff...

Eels?!
Tea you fool, tea!
Katganistan
18-02-2007, 17:50
Just goes to show: don't ask for asylum in a nation where you can't speak the lingua franca. LOL!