Woman passenger attacks pilot

Feb 8th, 2008 | Category:Breaking News, World News
New Zealand

The sources said that a woman with knife wounded the pilot of a small commuter plane in New Zealand & threatened to blow it up in an apparent hijack attempt today. The Eagle Air Jetstream aircraft, carrying seven passengers from the regional city of Blenheim to Christchurch on South Island, landed safely & a woman was nabbed. One of the aircraft’s two pilots suffered minor injures in the incident before the woman was restrained, police spokesman Inspector Kieren Kortegast said. Emergency vehicles, including one carrying members of the police bomb squad, surrounded the aircraft on the tarmac & the airport was closed to incoming & outgoing flights.

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