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Copilot hijacks Ethiopian Airlines plane to seek asylum in Switzerland

Ethiopian co-pilot lands Addis Ababa to Rome flight at Swiss airport and climbs out of plane through window An Ethiopian co-pilot hijacked his own plane after locking the captain out of the cockpit and flew it

Ethiopian co-pilot lands Addis Ababa to Rome flight at Swiss airport and climbs out of plane through window

An Ethiopian co-pilot hijacked his own plane after locking the captain out of the cockpit and flew it to Geneva in an audacious attempt to seek asylum in Switzerland.

The unidentified co-pilot seized control of the Addis Ababa to Rome flight after the captain went to the bathroom while the plane was flying over Italy, police in Geneva said on Monday.

A few minutes after landing at the Swiss airport, the man exited the plane by scaling down a rope he had thrown out of the cockpit window and gave himself up to authorities. The 202 passengers on board, who were unaware the plane had been hijacked, were then evacuated from the craft and escorted to waiting vehicles with their hands over their heads.

Police said the Ethiopian co-pilot had been unarmed and that there were no signs he had been violent towards fellow crew or passengers. The airport was closed for two hours as emergency vehicles descended on the runway after the flight landed at around 6am on Monday morning, but has since reopened.

In a series of recordings of radio conversations with authorities, the co-pilot can be heard repeatedly asking for asylum in the European country. “Do you know if we will get the asylum in time?” he asks in one recording. “We need asylum or assurance that we will not be transferred to (inaudible).”

Source: The Telegraph

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  • L.T February 17, 2014

    Good news Assenna….

  • Asghedom Woldeghiorghis February 17, 2014

    Africans likes to vlean dishes, and tsxi drivers than poilt and enginerrs. Typicslly ethiopisnd.
    Of vuorse modt ofvthem they get houses and money without doing nothing.
    it was necessary to hsjisk thebplsin he was able to runn away even without haijsking thevplane.
    Africans shoukd not spend even a dingl cents to teach their owen prople because mostvofvthem arevliers.
    in this case Issaias is right

    • EYENSN February 17, 2014

      Well may be he doesn’t want to be governed by agame anymore. May be he just find out who agame is and what their best job was in Eritrea before.

      • Asghedom Woldeghiorghis February 18, 2014

        Agame trained him, he is only 31 years old, but ” kindi zekolesku idey tenekesku”
        For me he want to clean dishs and houses in europ than to be a poilet in ethiopia.
        how money gratued people of eritrea and ethiopia are cleaning dishes and houses.
        you know some people in the horn of Africa likes to be frustreted than to be rispected.
        those who don’t to be govrned by the wise peopke of Agame then they want Mengistum and Isayas, and pay life and money to ve slaves. Ther is no rquale to Agame in any aspect. They are the diffendres of the dignity of ethiopia inclufing eritrea,
        they prefer poverty than to be colonised they prefer dignity than prostiution, they are the most hard eirkers every were, they are good planers and hard workers.
        since no one is equal to them , every garbege of ethiopia andceritrea is surprise by thier inteligence snd hard planning,.
        The sutprised garbeges know instead to study they only insult agame forvthier weaknes.

  • david February 17, 2014

    Eyensn, you are Mindless, What is your best job now? you are claiming agame’s past job. no wonder things are getting like this. . .

    • EYENSN February 17, 2014

      David

      I am hoping that everybody here to be Eritrea and I don’t see why you defending agame. If you are not eritrean then may be you are in the wrong place so check out your agame website.

  • hayal February 17, 2014

    Eyensn, good analysis wedi adi bro!

    • selamawit2 February 17, 2014

      halay, please check the meaning of analysis – though i don’t see much hope for you due to the stadium of your illnes – it could maybe help you to start developing yourself,

      it is not done with living in a world where at most three words are available: “weyane”, “agmae”, “hadamai”!

      you are so brainless, i guess if you get a meal you don’t like, you will also call it “weyane”!

      • Zufana February 17, 2014

        selamawit2
        Well said sister. I really like/admire your sense of humour.

  • Geje February 17, 2014

    There are many hypocrites in the Eritrean opposition and they come in many dresses and outfits.

    Ali Abdu’s brother Salah Abdu Yonus and the web site Awate is one, Salah Younus or Awate website do not get tired of talking about shaebia crimes but never mention any of the crimes committed by Jebha which the owners were part of. In this devious tradition, Awate or Salah, so far, never ever write about the crimes of Ali Abdu, the hgdef’s former minister of information, hiding in Australia.

    Recently, Ali Abdu’s brother in Awate writes praising Ali Abdu without mentioning the death and incarceration of dozens of Eritrean journalists and many disappearances Ali Abdu had inflicted. This is the same Ali Abdu who smeared and accused Minster Haile Weldensae Drue in 2001 of being a “CIA informant responsible for Eritrea’s defeat in the Ethio-Eritrea war. The truth is that Ali Abdu was sending his wife to California, America every-time Ali Abdu’s wife gets pregnant since 1996 to give birth a baby with American birth certificate.

    Ali Abdu’s brother in awate website never mentions about the crimes of Ali Abdu instead, he praises his brother who was Hgdef’s mouthpiece and Issaias Afewerki’s top attack dog as the “best manager in Eritrea” on his work at Eri-Tv.

    Salih Abdu Younus writes, ” ..Ali Abdu focused on the populist constituency (mass media: particularly its over-sized Eri-TV)… ;
    If I were real biased, I would say that Ali Abdu created the only institution in Eritrea that works (a muscular Eri-TV) and he had superior management skills …. Within this dynamic, particularly after Ali Abdu left, Yemane Gebremeskel (the Director of the President’s Office) and Yemane Gebreab (the Director of Political Affairs) have become the Dispensers of Good News …”

    Thanks to assenna and its writer Amanuel Mahdere, we know a lot about the evil crimes Ali Abdu had committed in Eritrea.

    Here is Reuter’s sample of Dec 10, 2009,
    NAIROBI (Reuters) – Eritrea said on Thursday it was not aware of reports of an alleged mass arrest of Christians that a rights group says took place in the capital Asmara last weekend.

    Eritrea’s Information Minister Ali Abdu told Reuters by phone that he had not seen any reports of arrests and that any arrests would not have been religiously motivated.

    “I’ll be very honest with you … if someone is arrested, why is it significant what religion they are?” Ali said. “If they were arrested, I’m sure they were committing a crime.”

    • abdu February 17, 2014

      Jujmajuj
      I’m kind of got kind of confused ; I see. But; I don’t and I’m unable to really connect the author of article story with Salih Yonous . I’m sorry jujj.but can u help me what is message there.

    • YONAS February 18, 2014

      geje,you are retarded

    • bana February 18, 2014

      Jeji what is wrong, next time be relevant the article in point.

  • Stefanos Temolso February 17, 2014

    How is salih Younus or Ali Abdu connected with the news release?

    • ahmed saleh February 17, 2014

      He might has personal issue with Awate com.
      to blackmail S . Younus in connection with his
      brother . Same tactic of HGDF punishment to family members in retaliation .

  • abyssinia February 17, 2014

    Well, the crazy copilot has no reason to hijack commercial plane and direct passangers to wrong destination. He had many options to avail. Anyways, for breaching the avation rules, he should be put into a jail for years.

    • ahmed saleh February 17, 2014

      If he was an Eritrean what would be the response . Bravo , well done . Stop being
      hypocrites and respect individual right.
      The co-pilot did his professional way not
      the passengers notice until it is over safely
      and calm . I admire him for his concern.

      • Asghedom Woldeghiorghis February 18, 2014

        Brsvo bravo, you admire mad boy of 31 years old, that ethiopi have invested a lot of money to teach him to be good poilet, and he prefer to be house boy in foreign country , in switzerlsnd. How can you admire a stupid and ignorant man who don’t even understsnd what he is going against. He will get 20 years in jail snd he will never get refugi statues fir his ignorant action.
        For me he is stupied , may be he is somke drug before he fly .
        please my friend don’t admire stupiedes.

  • Yerhiwo February 17, 2014

    Simply stupid!!! He can leave to Geneva after the plane lands in Rome. Why did he choose this way to go to Geneva? I really don’t understand him. As a educated individual and as a copilot, he has the privilege to leave the Ethiopian Regime peacefully without getting himself in trouble.

  • Mightyembasoyra February 17, 2014

    Well, this just confirms the theory that these guys were still in bed with Isayas.
    They are DoA.

  • ahmed saleh February 18, 2014

    Brother mightyembasoira
    It is more important to mind our business and
    them not to interfer on our business .
    Just brotherly advice out respect for you.

    • MightyEmbasoyra February 18, 2014

      Ato Ahmed,
      Thank you for your comment but my comment was supposed to be on Amanuel’s article to Medrek. I realized it once I hit the post comment button but it was too late 🙂

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