Rogue passenger forces Russian jet into emergency landing
By Lucy Andy,WNS Czech Rep Correspondent
PRAGUE - A Russian Aeroflot airliner on a Moscow-Geneva flight has made an emergency landing in Prague after a passenger threatened to blow it up. Czech police called the incident an attempted hijacking but Russian media reports quoted officials as saying the passenger was drunk. Other passengers and police overcame the attacker, Czech national police chief, Vladislav Husak, told reporters Thursday. The Airbus A-320 jet was surrounded in an isolated corner of Prague-Ruzyne airport while security officials decided whether to let the flight continue. Czech reports said there were 170 people on the plane.
"Today, on flight 271 Moscow-Geneva, one of the passengers on the flight declared that he had an explosive device," Lev Koshlyakov, Aeroflot's deputy chief executive, said in comments broadcast on Russian state television. "The crew, in accordance with the current rules, asked to make an emergency landing in Prague and landed at Prague airport. Local law enforcement apprehended the passenger," Koshlyakov said. "The preliminary version is that this was a case of hooliganism," said Koshlyakov, adding that the passenger was a Russian who had been behaving "inappropriately."
Russian news agencies quoted officials as saying the passenger was drunk. An Aeroflot spokeswoman, Irina Dannenberg, earlier told AFP that there had been an "attempted assault" against the crew on the plane, but refused to give further details. The Czech police chief said an alert was raised after an attempted hijacking was reported by the crew.
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