There are now "concerns over lax security" at Norway's airports after an incident on a passenger flight caused by a passenger who had carried an axe on board...
Just minutes before the plane, a small Dornier 228, was scheduled to land in the northern Norwegian town of Bodoe at 10:50 a.m. (0850 GMT), one of the seven passengers onboard walked towards the cockpit, and suddenly attacked both the pilot and the co-pilot with an axe in an apparent bid to crash the aircraft."According to testimony from other passengers the man clearly intended to make the plane crash," deputy chief of police in Bodoe Tone Vangen told reporters.
"We should feel lucky that the outcome was not more serious," she added.
An Algerian, it turns out, who was not talking after he was subdued. I guess it was earlier then, when he was attacking the pilots with an axe, that he was determined to be "seemingly unstable" by the AFP newswriter. (via The Corner)
Posted by dan at September 29, 2004 03:16 PM