Zimbabwean student attempts to hijack S. African plane

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Published: Monday, 19 June 2006, 01:15:29 SAST

SAA passengers and an off-duty pilot tackled a 21-year-old man armed with syringe and needle in an attempted hijacking of a South African Airways flight from Cape Town to Johannesburg on Saturday.

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[Shayne]

Was he threatening to take blood from them?

[sally]

oh my liver, thats the first i have heard, using a syringe to hijack a plane!!! Zimbos...will try anything out!!!

[Richard]

at least once...

[RustyBear]

would of had more luck with potatoe gun freaking idiot.

[Shayne]

I wonder where the hell he was wanting to hijack it to. Bulawayo?

[biffon]

esigodini maybe? i hear they have a handy gravel strip there, probably better maintained than Harare intnl hehe

[RustyBear]

maybe he wanted to crash it into the karagamonmie centre building.