And I use to be the guy who sent the same msg over and over again(email gli= tch of course)=0A=0A=0A----- Original Message ----=0AFrom: Bill Hough <psa1= 88@xxxxxxxx>=0ATo: airline <airline@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; skyone@yahoogroups.= com; airline2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx=0ASent: Friday, February 16, 2007 3:54:46 PM= =0ASubject: [Airline] SFGate: Mauritanian Hijacker Gets in Hot Water=0A=0A= =0A=0A------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -=0ATh= is article was sent to you by someone who found it on SFGate.=0AThe origina= l article can be found on SFGate.com here:=0Ahttp://www.sfgate. com/cgi-bin= / article.cgi? file=3D/n/a/ 2007/02/16/ international/ i070721S38. DTL=0A--= ---------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -=0AFriday, Fe= bruary 16, 2007 (AP)=0AMauritanian Hijacker Gets in Hot Water=0ABy JUAN MAN= UEL PARDELLAS, Associated Press Writer=0A=0A(02-16) 11:12 PST SANTA CRUZ DE= TENERIFE, Canary Islands (AP) --=0A=0AA fast-thinking pilot with passenger= s in cahoots fooled a hijacker by=0Abraking hard upon landing, then acceler= ating to knock the man down. When=0Ahe fell, flight attendants threw boilin= g water in his face, and about 10=0Apeople pounced on him, Spanish official= s said Friday.=0A=0AThe Air Mauritania Boeing 737 carrying 71 passengers an= d a crew of eight=0Awas hijacked by a lone gunman brandishing two pistols T= hursday evening=0Ashortly after it took off from Nouakchott, the capital of= Mauritania, for=0AGran Canaria, one of Spain's Canary Islands, with a plan= ned stopover in=0ANouadhibou in northern Mauritania.=0A=0AThe hijacking ala= rmed Spanish officials because a trial of 29 people=0Aaccused in the Madrid= terrorist bombings of 2004 had begun the same day in=0AMadrid. But the man= 's motives were not terrorism; he wanted the plane to=0Afly to France so he= could request political asylum, said Mohamed Ould=0AMohamed Cheikh, Maurit= ania's top police official.=0A=0A"We were afraid. We thought it was people = from al-Qaida or the Algerian=0AGSPC who were going to cut our throats," sa= id Aicha Mint Sidi, a=0A45-year-old woman who was on the plane. The GSPC is= a Muslim extremist=0Agroup.=0A=0A"I trembled during and after the hijackin= g. I thought the plane was going=0Ato blow up any minute, either in mid-air= or on landing," said another=0Apassenger, Dahi Ould Ali, 52. Both spoke af= ter returning to Nouakchott.=0A=0AThe hijacker has been identified as Moham= ed Abderraman, a 32-year-old=0AMauritanian, said an official with the Spani= sh Interior Ministry office on=0ATenerife, another of the islands in the At= lantic archipelago. He spoke=0Aunder ground rules barring publication of hi= s name. Mauritania has said=0Athe hijacker was a Moroccan from the Western = Sahara.=0A=0AThe hijacker ordered the pilot to fly to France, but the crew = told him=0Athere was not enough fuel. And Morocco denied a request to land = in the=0Acity of Djala in the Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara, so the pi= lot=0Aheaded for Las Palmas in Gran Canaria, the original destination.=0A= =0AAlong the way, speaking to the hijacker, the pilot realized the man did= =0Anot speak French. So he used the plane's public address system to warn t= he=0Apassengers in French of the ploy he was going to try: brake hard upon= =0Alanding, then speed up abruptly. The idea was to catch the hijacker off= =0Abalance, and have crew members and men sitting in the front rows of the= =0Aplane jump him, the Spanish official said.=0A=0AThe pilot also warned wo= men and children to move to the back of the plane=0Ain preparation for the = subterfuge, the official said.=0A=0AIt worked. The man was standing in the = middle aisle when the pilot carried=0Aout his maneuver, and he fell to the = floor, dropping one of his two 7 mm=0Apistols. Flight attendants then threw= boiling water from a coffee machine=0Ain his face and at his chest, and so= me 10 people jumped on the man and=0Abeat him, the Spanish official said.= =0A=0AAround 20 people were slightly injured when the plane braked suddenly= , the=0Aofficial said.=0A=0AThe hijacker was arrested by Spanish police who= boarded the plane after it=0Alanded at Gando airport, outside Las Palmas.= =0A=0AAir Mauritania identified the heroic pilot as Ahmedou Mohamed Lemine,= a=0A20-year-veteran of the company.=0A=0A____=0A=0AAssociated Press writer= s Daniel Woolls in Madrid and Ahmed Mohamed in=0ANouakchott, Mauritania con= tributed to this report. ------------ --------- --------- --------- -------= -- --------- -=0ACopyright 2007 AP=0A=0A=0A__._,_.___ =0AMessages in this t= opic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic =0AMessages | Files | Pho= tos | Polls | Members =0A =0AChange settings via the Web (Yahoo! 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