‘Drunken’ Sochi hijack bid ends in Turkey

ISTANBUL, Feb 7 AFP – Turkey scrambled two F-16 jets to force down an airliner from Ukraine after an apparently drunk would-be hijacker ordered it to Sochi, where the Winter Olympics’ opening ceremony was under way. Officials say the Ukrainian man, brandishing what he said was a detonator, tried to gain access to the cockpit of the aircraft, which had 110 people on board. The Interfax-Ukraine…

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