FOX NEWS.com (AP): Ankara, Turkey - "PASSENGER ON ISTANBUL-BOUND FLIGHT MAKES BOMB THREAT, TRIES TO HIJACK PLANE TO SOCHI" (SNIPPET: "Ukrainian plane passenger") (February 7, 2014) (Read More...)
SKY NEWS.com: "HIJACKER DEMANDS PLANE BE FLOWN TO SOCHI jets are scrambled as a passenger on a flight from the Ukraine to Turkey claims he has a bomb and attempts to enter the cockpit." (SNIPPET: "One passenger, Gokhan Yildirim, said of the ordeal: "He said that he had bomb on him, and a friend of his would explode it remotely if he was harmed." Turkish special forces had boarded the Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737-800 and took the man into custody after negotiations broke down once it was on the tarmac.") (February 7, 2014, 8:36 pm UK) (Read More...)
Thanks, Cindy!
Adding to post no. 35:
Update:
(APZ
“Report: Turkish Court Arrests Hijacker”
(Sunday, February 9th, 2014)
SNIPPET: “Turkey’s state-run agency says a court in Istanbul has formally arrested a Ukrainian man who allegedly tried to hijack a Turkey-bound flight to Sochi, Russia, as the Winter Olympics were beginning.
Anadolu Agency says the man, identified as Artem Kozlov, was ordered jailed on Sunday following questioning by police.
Private NTV television said he was arrested on hijacking and hostage taking charges.”