Turkish Airlines plane hijacked in Greek airspace

[vikrant]

Turkish Airlines plane hijacked in Greek airspace



ATHENS:


A Turkish Airlines plane with 150 passengers and six crew aboard was hijacked while flying over Greece, en route from Albanian capital Tirana to Istanbul.
The passenger plane transmitted a coded hijack signal while in Greek air space, a Greek defence ministry official informed on Tuesday.

"The plane sent the signal twice while in Greek air space. Four Greek fighter jets took off and accompanied the plane as it left Greek air space towards the Italian city of Brindisi," the official said.

CNN Turk said later reported that the plane had landed at Brindisi airport in Italy.

Turkish TV, quoting police sources, informed that the plane was hijacked in protest at Pope Benedict's planned visit to Turkey.

Meanwhile, Italy Air Force has confirmed that the intercepted flight has landed at Brindisi. The ANSA news agency reported that the airliner had been intercepted by two Italian F-16s and forced to land.

The chairman of Turkish Airlines confirmed the hijacking and said none of the passengers had been hurt.
“The passengers are not under any threat. They will surrender, they declared that they will surrender the moment they hijacked the plane. No one is hurt,” Candan Karlitekin, chairman of Turkish Airlines' board of directors, said.

According to Turkey's NTV, two Turks hijacked the plane, and are ready to surrender.

The hijackers want Italian authorities to deliver a message to Pope Benedict, Italy's civil aviation authority said.

Italian aviation officials said the apparently unarmed hijackers were in negotiations with Italian authorities for the release of the passengers.
"As far as we know, the hijackers want to talk with Italian authorities to send a message to the Pope, a spokeswoman for ENAC said.

The hijackers were "not aggressive" and seemed "willing" to release more than 100 passengers, the deputy director of Italian civil aviation told Italian news channel Sky TV 24.


"They are not aggressive and are willing to free the passengers," said Salvatore Sciacchitano, who added that the two hijackers were unarmed.

Tuesday, October 03, 2006 21:33 IST

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[Kara Kolyo]

Meh i thought that they are just going to set free Ali Agja to be member of the welcoming commission. Not the best way to show that you dissagree with somebody.

[mrjesushat]

Very un-terrorist behavior. I wonder what's wrong with these two Turks. Don't they know that they're supposed to blow themselves and their captives up over the Vatican?

[vikrant]

i guess they dint saw any holywood movies
but sereiously they are hijacking in very civillized manner

[Last Roman]

So much for Turkey becoming part of the EU

[vikrant]

delete this

[mrjesushat]

i guess they dint saw any holywood movies

but sereiously they are hijacking in very civillized manner

It's almost an act of transnational civil disobedience.

[Syron]

i guess they dint saw any holywood movies

but sereiously they are hijacking in very civillized manner

An oxymoron if ever I saw one. You think hijacking is acceptable behaviour?

It's a bad day when we start accepting all but the worst case scenario

[Tom Paine]

An oxymoron if ever I saw one. You think hijacking is acceptable behaviour?

It's a bad day when we start accepting all but the worst case scenario

Acceptable and civilised are very different things, Syron.

[Denny Crane!]

You have to wonder though how this is going to effect their entry into the EU, delay it mightily I would imagine. Does civil unrest effect their status? I would have thought so, that and more PKK activity must cast a negative light on the debate.

Peter

[vikrant]

An oxymoron if ever I saw one. You think hijacking is acceptable behaviour?

how can u think like tht ??
i would recomend horrible death sentence to all the terrorist .
i was just commneting on this perticular situation.

[Denny Crane!]

Not in this case they aren't.

Peter

[Darkragnar]

The thing that i was wondering is, how on earth did they "Hijack" the plane unarmed ??? did they shout "Were Hijacking this plane, please dont try to overpower us were just going to give the pope a call once we land in Italy until that time free drinks on the house"
I mean there were more then 100 passanger's who could have easily put these clowns in chains but they didnt.

[RZZZA]

The thing that i was wondering is, how on earth did they "Hijack" the plane unarmed ??? did they shout "Were Hijacking this plane, please dont try to overpower us were just going to give the pope a call once we land in Italy until that time free drinks on the house"
I mean there were more then 100 passanger's who could have easily put these clowns in chains but they didnt.

Cue the black comedians.

"You know DAMN WELL that if there was some brothers on that plane..."

etc, etc, etc.

[Tom Paine]

Fear. Fear makes fools of us all; we are paralysed by it. Fear of them being armed, of them being willing to blow up the plane; fear that they would or could do something more than they had the potential and ability to do.

[Carach]

in protest against the pope.....

do muslims think violence/potentially violent actions are the only way to get some attention?

its just one stupid thing after another.

[Tom Paine]

Its what gets them attention; when they do things peacefully they don't get attention, when was the last time you heard about a public and peaceful statement? But reast assured that they are happening; they just don't get reported, they don't make good news.

[Ahiga]

Well, they were willing to surrender as soon as the plane touched down. This is what could be called the more 'passive' days of terrorism, where a body count wasn't the agenda but rather getting your political message on the television was. What these two turks did is stupid, but at least they chose to surrender as it touched down and not cause anyone harm beyond fear.

I'd rather they start on the road to protesting 'peacefully' like this in lieu of bombings and jihad.

Of course, will we listen? I ask that to the hard liners on TWC. Would you listen to their complaints if they stopped murdering and threatening? Would you comply if they were reasonable?

I mean..*cough* we weren't exactly mr. reasonable with pre-Ayatollah Iran...

[Carach]

Well, they were willing to surrender as soon as the plane touched down. This is what could be called the more 'passive' days of terrorism, where a body count wasn't the agenda but rather getting your political message on the television was. What these two turks did is stupid, but at least they chose to surrender as it touched down and not cause anyone harm beyond fear.

Hijacking planes is illegal as far as i know Ahiga, and theres a dozen other ways of getting your point across without hijacking a damn plane.

Its pathetic.
They should be jailed under terrorism laws, because thats what they are. Terrorising a whole plane, god knows what people on board were thinking - "are we going to die?" and so forth...

[Syron]

Acceptable and civilised are very different things, Syron.

They are not the same but highly related. After all, in civilisations what is deemed acceptable by the majority is usually a marker of what is and isn’t considered civilised. Eg, canabalism. There’s nothing really that wrong with eating a human if you didn’t kill them yet it’s still considered barbaric.

how can u think like tht ??
i would recomend horrible death sentence to all the terrorist .
i was just commneting on this perticular situation.

All I’m saying is that you are praising the hijackers for not acting al-qaida style. When you have to start praising people for not resorting to violence even when they’re still doing wrong then there is something very wrong with your mentality.

Well, they were willing to surrender as soon as the plane touched down. This is what could be called the more 'passive' days of terrorism, where a body count wasn't the agenda but rather getting your political message on the television was. What these two turks did is stupid, but at least they chose to surrender as it touched down and not cause anyone harm beyond fear.

I'd rather they start on the road to protesting 'peacefully' like this in lieu of bombings and jihad.

Of course, will we listen? I ask that to the hard liners on TWC. Would you listen to their complaints if they stopped murdering and threatening? Would you comply if they were reasonable?

I mean..*cough* we weren't exactly mr. reasonable with pre-Ayatollah Iran...

There’s a big difference between protesting peacefully and hijacking a plane! What will this event achieve anyway? They are supposedly protesting against what the pope said, an event that has passed. There is no way to change that fact.

These people are religious fanactics.

They have terrorised innocent people for the supposed crimes of someone else. They are not the law, they do not get to decide who is punished. These people are just as bad as the 9/11 hijackers.