HYPARK
EP9977
1360 : URGENTNIGHTLERD HIJACK:
BY PAUL MAJEADIE
HONG KONG, MARCH 9. REUTER --A LONE HIJACKER WAS SHOT DEAD TODAY WHEN HE TRIED TO TAKE OVER A NATIONALIST CHINESE RORLINER ON A FLIGHT FROM TRIMAN TO HONG KONG. HELL INFORMED SOURCES SAID.
THEY SAID HE WAS SHOT BY ANOTHER MEMBER OF THE CREA. ERRLIER REPORTS HAD SAID HONG XONG POLICE STORMED
THE MIRCRAFT BUT. ACCORDING TO THE SOURCES. THE DRAMA HRS OVER BEFORE POLICE BOARDED THE PLANE AT XRI TRX INTERNATIONAL
AORPORT HERE.
WIRE WM/JER HORE
DXP487 C) 4286
UXPAR8 EPB845
1366 :NICHTLERD HIJRCK
THE SOURCES BELEIVED THAT THE HIROKER MRS & MEMBER OF THE CREW AND THAT HE USED AN AXE IN HIS BID TO SEIZE THE BOEING 737 AIRLINER WITH 94 PASSENGERS PROGRO.
THEY SAID THE PILOT AND FLIGHT ENGINEER WERE HOUNDED. THE MOTIVE OF THE HIJACKER HAS NOT KNOWN. TTHE SOURCES SRID THE PLANE SEEMED TO HERD TOWARD CHINA WHEN THE INIDENT OCCURRED, BUT THIS MAY HAVE BEEN A PRE-LANDING TURN OF A
KIMD ROUTINE ON THE APPROACH TO HONG KONG.
THE INCIDENT IS BELIEVED TO BE THE FIRST
ATTEMPTED HIJACK OF A PLANE BELONGING TO CHINA BIRLINES,
THE TRIMAN FLAG CARRIER.
PORE SW/PJT
UKPA92 EPR579
4246 :NIGHTLERD HIJRCK 3 HONG KONG:
+EVERYTHING IS NOW UNDER CONTROL + RIRPORT POLICE SAID. A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID THE TWO INJURED CREW MAD LACERATIONS AND HERE IN SATISFACTORY CONDITION IN HOSPITAL.
THE PLANE HAD TAKEN OFF FROM XROHSIUNG, TRINEN'S MAJOR PORT, AND THE SOURCES SAID THE INCIDENT OCCURRED JUST DIX MILES
IT WAS THE FAR EAST'S FIRST HIJRCK DRAMA THIS VERR. IN DECEMBER 1977 ALL 180 RBOARD A MALAYSIAN BOEING 737
“OGCUEN KEDD
CUCORAZIA
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