Drunke­n incide­nts involv­ing passen­gers on commer­cial flight­s in Russia are fairly common­MOSCOW: A drunk Russian man who unsuccessfully tried to hijack an Aeroflot passenger flight was detained by police on Tuesday after the plane made an emergency landing in Siberia, Russian investigators said. State television channel Rossiya-24 showed footage of masked security officers seizing the man on board the plane and leading him out with his hands behind his back. Two dead as Russian bomber crashes during training flight“The passengers and crew members on board the aircraft disembarked safely and without injury,” Aeroflot said in a statement. Drunken incidents involving passengers on commercial flights in Russia are fairly common, though it is unusual for them to result in flights being diverted. Russia’s Investigative Committee said it had opened a criminal investigation into the man who faces potential charges of hijacking a plane while threatening to use violence.

Source: The Express Tribune January 22, 2019 15:11 UTC