RUSSIA - A HIJACKER WHO SEIZED A PASSENGER JET BLOWS HIMSELF UP WHEN POLICE COMMANDOS STORM THE PLANE

Record ID: 646212

  • Title: RUSSIA - A HIJACKER WHO SEIZED A PASSENGER JET BLOWS HIMSELF UP WHEN POLICE COMMANDOS STORM THE PLANE
  • Date: 27th October 1994
  • Summary: MAKHACHKALA, DAGESTAN, RUSSIA (OCTOBER 27, 1994) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV PLANE ON TARMAC 0.06 2. CUP BLOWN-UP ROOF 0.12 3. LV HIJACKER'S BODY UNDERNEATH PLANE 0.16 4. LV PLANE 0.21 5. SV/ZOOM OUT/LV OFFICIALS STANDING OVER BODY (3 SHOTS) 0.28 6. SLV BLOWN-OUT WINDOW 0.33 7. GV HELICOPTER ARRIVES 0.41 8. SV OFFICIALS EXAMINING BODY 0.49 9. SV/LV VARIOUS VIEWS NEWS CONFERENCE (2 SHOTS) 0.57 11. MCU/LV FIRST DEPUTY HEAD OF FEDERAL COUNTER- INTELLIGENCE SERVICE YEVGENY SEVASTYANOV SPEAKING ABOUT RESCUE OPERATION (RUSSIAN) 1.19 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 11th November 1994 12:00
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  • Location: MAKHACHKALA, DAGESTAN, RUSSIA
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  • Country: Russia
  • Reuters ID: LVA1B7QUPU2965XR7X8TWT2RBJZD
  • Story Text: A hijacker who seized a small passenger jet in the southern Russian republic of Daghestan blew himself up when police commandos stormed the plane in thick fog early on Thursday (October 27), officials said.

    The hijacker, who seized the Yak-40 jet with 27 people on board late on Tuesday, released his last hostages, the plane's two pilots, overnight.

    It was the latest in a series of kidnappings in Russia's increasingly lawless southern frontier regions, but the first in which a hijacker seized a plane rather than abducting bus passengers and demanding an aircraft to take him to safety.

    The successful police operation contrasted starkly with the bungling of a rescue attempt during a July kidnapping in the same region which left five people dead.

    The hijacker, who Interfax news agency named as Mekhtizade Eton-Said-ogly, had demanded a large ransom and safe passage to Iran.

    A federal counter-intelligence service officer said all the ransom money paid over had been retrieved during the dawn operation, which started at 6.52 a.m. (0352 GMT).


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