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Azeri woman threatening to blow up plane detained at Volgograd airport

03 May 2007 [16:49] - TODAY.AZ
Volgograd security agencies detained a female passenger of a Tupolev-134 passenger jet who had threatened to set off an explosive device while the plane heading for Volgograd was still in midair.

"The incident occurred onboard an aircraft heading from Sheremetyevo [a Moscow airport] to Volgograd at about 11:00 a.m. Moscow time Thursday. The passenger, a native of Azerbaijan born in 1973, refused to obey a flight attendant's instruction to fasten her seatbelt before the plane was to descend, locked herself in a toilet, and announced from there that she would blow up the plane," a Volgograd regional law enforcement source told Interfax.

The plane landed safely, and the woman was detained at the airport. Interfax

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