Bangladeshi commandos shot a passenger on Sunday who had tried to enter the cockpit of a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight after waving a gun and threatening to blow up the plane, airline and aviation authority officials say. "We tried to arrest him or get him to surrender but he refused and then we shot him," said Major General S M Motiur Rahman of the Bangladesh Army. He then said he had explosives and if they didn't open the door of the cockpit he would blow up the plane, officials said. It was not immediately clear if he had explosives, though the pistol was real, according to a senior aviation official. The security questions are a matter of concern and would be the subject of an investigation, said the aviation official.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 25, 2019 01:41 UTC