JUST IN......NDEGE YA SHIRIKA LA ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES YATEKWA...

Ndege iliyokuwa imetekwa

Rubani msaidizi wa ndege ya abiria ya shirika la ndege la Ethiopia ndiye aliyeiteka nyara.

Maafisa mini Geneva wanasema kuwa naibu huyo wa rubani alichukua usukani wa ndege hiyo rubani wake alipokwenda msalani kwa haja.

Tukio hilo inaripotiwa kutokea ndege hiyo aina ya Boeing 767-300 ilipokuwa ikipaa katika anga ya Sudan.

Rubani huyo msaidizi alibadili mkondo wa ndege hiyo iliyokuwa ikielekea Rome Italia ,na kuipaa hadi Uswisi alipoitua katika uwanja wa ndege wa Geneva.

 Photograph: Pierre Taillefer/AFP

The hijacked Ethiopian Airlines flight landed in Geneva. Swiss police

 have detained the co-pilot of an Ethiopian Airlines flight that was forced

 to land at Geneva’s international airport early on Monday morning.


Police said the co-pilot, who has asked to be granted asylum, took 

control of the plane when the pilot went to the toilet, then landed

 and left through the window on a rope. Authorities said the situation

 was under control and no passengers or crew had been injured.

 Flight ET 702 had been diverted from its original destination of Rome. 

The airline earlier said the flight from the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa

 had been “forced to proceed” to Geneva. An Ethiopian government 

spokesman, Redwan Hussein, told Reuters the flight had made a scheduled 

stop in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, where he said

 the hijacker or hijackers might have boarded the flight.

 “We don’t know where they are from or how many they are but

 it looks like the hijacker or hijackers boarded the flight in

 Khartoum,” Redwan told Reuters shortly before police announced

 they had detained the co-pilot

The path of the plane circling over Geneva, captured by flightradar24.com.

In an apparent recording of a radio communication between the aircraft

 and air traffic control posted on Twitter, a demand for asylum can clearly

 be heard.
The authenticity of the recording could not be independently verified

 and it was not immediately clear whether it was a hijacker or pilot

 speaking from the plane.A flight tracking app showed the flight

 circling over the Swiss city several times before landing.
“Hijacker held, situation under control, no injuries,” Swiss police 

said in a message to media.
An Ethiopian Airlines statement said flight 702 “on scheduled service

 departing from Addis Ababa at 00:30 (local time) scheduled to arrive

 in Rome at 04:40 (local time) was forced to proceed to Geneva airport.
“Accordingly, the flight has landed safely at Geneva airport. All passengers

 and crew are safe at Geneva airport,” it said.

Reuters