UNBELIEVABLE: PILOT ARRESTED FOR ATTEMPTING TO HIJACK HIS OWN PLANE IN SWITZERLAND

A co-pilot on board an Ethiopian Airlines flight bound for Rome
hijacked the very plane he was flying early Monday morning and diverted it to Geneva, Switzerland, because he wanted to seek asylum.
He locked himself in the cockpit and took over the controls while the
captain was on a toilet break.
The man, an Ethiopian in his early
30s, was arrested when the plane
landed at Geneva International Airport, police said.

The 202 passengers and crew aboard the Boeing 767-300 were not harmed. “His act has been
motivated by the fact that he feels
threatened in his country and wants to make a claim for political asylum in Switzerland,” Swiss
police spokesman Philippe Grangean said.

However, THE AFRICAN EYE reckons
that for the pilot to have endangered hundreds of lives in
this way, what he probably should be seeking is a mental asylum not political asylum.

It will be recalled that in 1996, 125 people died after a hijacked Ethiopian Airlines crashed in the Indian Ocean after running out of fuel. In that case, the hijackers
were seeking asylum in Australia.

In 1998, an Air China captain,
reportedly disgruntled with life in China, hijacked his passenger jet to
Taiwan.

(Additional reporting by CNN)