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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence

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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (6050)10/3/2001 4:22:22 PM
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CRACK COMMANDO UNIT AT THE AIRPORT
HIJACKERS SEEK ENGINEERS
CRISIS MANAGEMENT UNIT MEETS

NEW DELHI: A Boeing 737 belonging to India's state-run Alliance Air, with 52 people on board, was hijacked just after take off from Mumbai early Thursday, Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation Shahnawaz Hussain said.

The Minister said a hijack distress call had been received by the Air Traffic Control (ATC) in New Delhi where the plane had landed at around 1 a.m.

The Times of India received a distress call from a passenger of the hijacked aircraft.

The aircraft, on its way to Delhi, was hijacked after passing Ahmedabad, initial reports said. The plane, with 46 passengers and 6 crew on board, departed from Mumbai at 11:15 pm.

The Alliance Air is a subsidiary of the Indian Airlines.

The plane is now parked at an isolated bay runway 27 of the airport.

Police and fire vehicles have rushed towards the site.

(AFP/PTI)
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