Passengers and crew foil would-be Russian hijacker

I think this ties in well with the previous post.

By Jan Korselt

PRAGUE (Reuters) - Crew members and passengers overpowered a Russian man who tried to hijack an Aeroflot plane on Thursday and the aircraft safely made an emergency landing in Prague, airline officials said.

"One of the passengers on board the Moscow-Geneva flight said he had an explosive device and ordered (the crew) to change course," Lev Koshlyakov, deputy general director of the Russian airline, told Reuters.
"There are reasons to believe that this was an act of hooliganism," he added.

The Airbus A-320, on a charter flight from Moscow to Geneva, made an unplanned landing in the Czech capital after the pilot declared an emergency while the man tried to force his way into the flight deck.
Passengers and crew members overpowered the man and handed him over to Czech police who were questioning him, officials said.

"A drunk person was on board. He provoked a brawl with passengers, threatened to damage the plane and demanded that it change the course," Itar-Tass news agency quoted Viktor Parkhimovich, an Aeroflot representative in Prague, as saying.

Vladislav Husak, the head of the Czech police force, told reporters there was a suspicion the man was drunk but added police were waiting for results of medical tests. Continued...