Plane in emergency landing after hijack threat

A domestic airliner flying from India's tourist state of Goa made an emergency landing in New Delhi yesterday after two passengers threatened to hijack the plane, a government statement said. Heavily-armed National Security Guard commandos surrounded...

A domestic airliner flying from India's tourist state of Goa made an emergency landing in New Delhi yesterday after two passengers threatened to hijack the plane, a government statement said.

Heavily-armed National Security Guard commandos surrounded the plane once it landed and was taxied to an isolated bay at the Indira Gandhi International Airport.

"There were a couple of passengers behaving aggressively who also said that they would hijack the plane," a Ministry of Civil Aviation statement said.

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