Passengers on board a Turkish Airlines flight from Norway to Istanbul managed to overpower a man who tried to hijack the plane.
According to reports in the Turkish media, the man put on a mask and attempted to get into the cockpit, saying he had a bomb.
The hijacker is said to have demanded that the plane return to Oslo before being tackled by passengers. Nobody was hurt.
He was arrested when the plane landed at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport.
Media reports claim the suspect was a Turkish citizen from a Kurdish village in the south-eastern region of Anatolia.
They said the ‘bomb’ was found to be fake.
By Bev Fearis
