Plane crew thwart hijack attempt in China: authorities

[IceCold]

BEIJING: Crew and passengers travelling on a plane that had just taken off from a restive city in China's far-western Xinjiang region on Friday thwarted a hijack attempt by six people, authorities said.

The plane returned safely to the airport and the six have been detained, a brief statement on the Xinjiang government's news website said, without detailing who the hijackers were.


Plane crew thwart hijack attempt in China: authorities - geo.tv

Any one from China can comment on this or has more updates on this story?

 

[Mujraparty]

Six members of China's Uighur minority tried to hijack a plane flying from a restive city in the far-western Xinjiang region
on Friday but crew members and passengers thwarted them, authorities said.

The plane returned safely to the airport in Hotan city - which has seen violent clashes between mainly Muslim Uighurs and police due to simmering ethnic tensions - and the six have been detained, a government statement said on Friday.

"The six hijackers are Uighurs," Hou Hanmin, a spokeswoman for the government of Xinjiang told AFP news agency.

"For the moment, we don't know the purpose of the hijack. It's still under investigation," she said, adding at least seven crew members and passengers had been injured in the incident.

The aircraft took off at 12:25 pm (0425 GMT) from Hotan, then 10 minutes into the flight the six suspects tried to "violently hijack" the plane, according to tianshannet.com, the Xinjiang government's news website.

But crew members and passengers soon brought them under control and the aircraft returned to the city, the website said.

The plane had been bound for the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi.

Xinjiang is home to around nine million Uighurs, many of whom complain of religious and cultural repression by Chinese authorities - a claim the government denies - and the region is regularly hit by unrest.

Twelve children were injured this month when police raided an Islamic school in Hotan, amid an escalating crackdown by authorities on "illegal" religious activities.

In July last year, 20 Uighur protesters were killed in Hotan in a clash with police.

Plane crew 'thwart hijack attempt' in China - Asia-Pacific - Al Jazeera English

 

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[Bhairava]

Oops..this is getting bigger.

Historically hijackings have served as a precursor to insurgencies..

Just saying..

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

Six members of China's Uighur minority tried to hijack a plane flying from a restive city in the far-western Xinjiang region
on Friday but crew members and passengers thwarted them, authorities said.

The plane returned safely to the airport in Hotan city - which has seen violent clashes between mainly Muslim Uighurs and police due to simmering ethnic tensions - and the six have been detained, a government statement said on Friday.

"The six hijackers are Uighurs," Hou Hanmin, a spokeswoman for the government of Xinjiang told AFP news agency.

"For the moment, we don't know the purpose of the hijack. It's still under investigation," she said, adding at least seven crew members and passengers had been injured in the incident.

The aircraft took off at 12:25 pm (0425 GMT) from Hotan, then 10 minutes into the flight the six suspects tried to "violently hijack" the plane, according to tianshannet.com, the Xinjiang government's news website.

But crew members and passengers soon brought them under control and the aircraft returned to the city, the website said.

The plane had been bound for the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi.

Xinjiang is home to around nine million Uighurs, many of whom complain of religious and cultural repression by Chinese authorities - a claim the government denies - and the region is regularly hit by unrest.

Twelve children were injured this month when police raided an Islamic school in Hotan, amid an escalating crackdown by authorities on "illegal" religious activities.

In July last year, 20 Uighur protesters were killed in Hotan in a clash with police.

Plane crew 'thwart hijack attempt' in China - Asia-Pacific - Al Jazeera English

Well, China was killing the terrorists as usual, now if they believe that highjacking a civilian jetliner is the rightful act, then US should never b**ch about 9/11.

No wonder Al Jazeera has no credibility now since it is nothing, but a mouthpiece of the western imperialist.

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

Kudos to crew,
They must be brave people able to thwart an hijacking attempt

 

[xuxu1457]

a Terrorist organizations, many countries have Terrorist organizations, including US, Japan,India, PAK...and so on, welcom to attack police and army, but attacking citizen is zero tolerance and craven manner, should get the most severe punishment

 

[IceCold]

Muslim and Islam is barely a tag used by these scums of the earth to impose their agenda on other people. Pakistan too should take a leaf out of China's book and how they deal with terrorists like these. They high jack a civilian plane and then they accept to be treated equally. Pathetic

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

What the F are you talking about? Are you a racist who believes Uighur = terrorist?

No one doubts these particular Uighur's are terrorists, and probably trained in or received help from elements in Pakistan.

Now you were the one who deliberately created the flamebait?

When did i say the Uyghurs are terrorists?

Some terrorists are ethnically Uyghurs, but most Uyghurs are peaceful citizens, so what if these scums have the training camp in Pakistan? Pakistan even has other anti-government movement thanked to your government.

 

[Fazlu]

Most likely trained in the afpak-. This is what happens when you let taliban flourish.

They want to impose themselves on everyone else. It doesn't matter if its china or India.

 

[siegecrossbow]

Muslim and Islam is barely a tag used by these scums of the earth to impose their agenda on other people. Pakistan too should take a leaf out of China's book and how they deal with terrorists like these. They high jack a civilian plane and then they accept to be treated equally. Pathetic

The motives of Uighur terrorists are mostly ethnic in nature. They resist the Kazhaks and the Huis as much as they resist the Han Chinese.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

These terrorists got subdued by our brave Chinese civilians.