Wednesday, 27. November 2002
Topic: - on November 27, 2002 at 7:34:52 PM CET
Italy jet in al Qaeda hijack scare
An Italian man claiming to be a member of al Qaeda has been arrested by French police in Lyon after he tried to hijack an Alitalia flight from Bologna to Paris. Stefano Savorani, a former policeman, went to the cockpit with a remote control device and told the crew he intended to blow up the plane, which had 67 passengers and seven crewmembers on board.
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