Posted on 02/07/2014 10:21:46 AM PST by don-o
Turkish security officials searched a passenger plane at an Istanbul airport after a bomb threat was made and a passenger demanded to fly to Sochi, Russia, where the Winter Olympics got underway Friday.
The Pegasus Airline flight with 110 passengers from Kharkov, Ukraine, landed safely at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport.
A Ukrainian sitting in seat 2F said he had a bomb on him and demanded that the fight be diverted to Sochi, Hasip Soluk Habertük, the Turkish Undersecretary of Transportation told reporters.
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Enjoy your stay in a Turkish prison!
Yeah, Midnight Express comes to mind!
That’s quite a flight plan diversion. Do you suppose the flight crew convinced him that Istanbul was Sochi?. But they had to fly over a lot of water to get there. Maybe the Turks will help him detonate his bomb? Somewhere over the Black Sea. He’s gotta be supremely disappointed. Be fun to hear the rest of this dumbass’s story.
” Midnight Express comes to mind!”
Billy Hayes was a friend of mine in college. He always had the best “stuff!”
The kid from my school who had the best “stuff” was dead by the time our twenty year reunion rolled around.
Did you know that the prison is now a Four Seasons Hotel?
“Did you know that the prison is now a Four Seasons Hotel?”
You’re(your,ur) pulling’ my leg, right?
No. I’ve walked past it many times. It’s very close to the Blue Mosque.
Wow! What a surprise! Billy needs to book a room! Well,,,, maybe not,,,,,.....
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