Hijacked Airline
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- Ramanisky2
BREAKING NEWS***
A commercial airliner carrying 104 passengers was hijacked Wednesday on the tarmac at Mexico City's airport.
Three abductors -- possibly Bolivians or Colombians -- aboard the Boeing 737 Aeromexico jet have threatened to blow it up if their demand to speak to President Felipe Calderon is not met,
- kgvs720
Probably something about cocaine traffic and safe passage.
- erikjonsson0
probably some viral for wwf
- TheBlueOne0
Must be a cartel thing.
- Sugary0
kidnapping is big business in mexico
- And cousin, business is a boomin.harlequino
- yupmoldero
- thats why gun laws are bad down here (only the bad guys are HEAVILY armed) besides myself, the paranoid gringo.moldero
- akoni0
I think I last heard it has landed, and police have started negotiations
- instrmntl0
jesus
- epic_rim0
poor mexico
- BattleAxe0
TV Azteca added that the abductors had released all passengers but held the crew
- brandelec0
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - An AeroMexico passenger plane was hijacked in the Mexican resort of Cancun on Wednesday and flown to Mexico City's international airport, but all the more than 100 passengers on board got off the plane soon afterward, Mexican media said.
Local newspaper websites said three men had seized control of the Boeing 737 plane and threatened to blow it up unless they were allowed to speak to President Felipe Calderon.
Mexican radio said the plane was carrying 104 passengers.
Soon after the plane landed in Mexico City, the passengers descended from the plane, carrying hand luggage, Mexican media said. They appeared calm and boarded nearby buses. The crew were apparently still on board.
Airport officials were not available to comment, but TV images showed security forces swarming the airport.
Flights from the airport were grounded.
The plane was seized by three men, who appeared to be Bolivian, after it took off from Cancun, a well-known resort popular with U.S. tourists, Mexican media said.
One of the passengers, Adriana Romero, told Mexican television she had not realized the flight had been hijacked until the plane landed at Mexico City. "We realized it was a hijack when we saw the police trucks," she said.
El Universal daily said the men had not been able to get inside the plane's cockpit.
- harlequino0
Freed? Abductors sound like a bunch of Mexican'ts.
Too soon?
- benfal990
poor passengers, that must have been a very bad moment for them :(
- "One of the passengers, Adriana Romero, told Mexican television she had not realized the flight had been hijacked until the plane landed at Mexico City."TheBlueOne
- until the plane landed at Mexico City". Not so much.TheBlueOne
- :P ah!benfal99
- Jnr_Madison0
Hexameters.
- canuck0
So what are they bargaining with ?
- the crewSugary
- CrewBattleAxe
- Bags of airplane mixed nuts and those under seat flotation devicesTheBlueOne
- Oh..and the crewTheBlueOne
- < Slow poke RodriguezBattleAxe
- brandelec0
may be the crew is in on it
- harlequino0
They're bargaining with Lucha Libre highlights.
- what's the equivalent to a drum roll in mariachi music?brandelec
- i meant rim shotbrandelec
- Just yell "Ole!"harlequino
- Yeah..like an A Minor chord and an "Ole!"TheBlueOne
- FYI: Olé is used in Spain..
NOT Mexico. unless your in a bullfight of course.sea_sea
- Sugary0
- OLE!brandelec
- AND THEY ARE NOT AFRAID TO USE THEMTheBlueOne
- you say A WEVO!! not friquen OLE!sea_sea
- canuck0
sounds like job for John McClane
- ceiling_cat0
The drug dealers are winning over the Mexican gov't
- Mexico has a government now?canuck
- yeah. they are called drug dealers.lvl_13
- got'chacanuck
- drugs are legal in Mexico now, doncha know.TheBlueOne
- Sugary0
- He got promoted from co-pilot finally.harlequino
- hahaceiling_cat
- LOLepic_rim
- hahahaa!sea_sea
- Jesus can get 100 mexicans off a plane, but cant get 1 out of about 100 million a car?CygnusZero4