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The co-pilot of Ethiopian Airlines flight ET who had hijacked his plane and got it to Switzerland, in a bid to claim political asylum in the.
The Ethiopian Co-pilot, Hailemedhin Abera Tegegn who hijacked Ethiopian Airlines flight ET last February might be granted asylum in Switzerland.!
Ethiopian Airlines Flight
aircraft hijacking
Ethiopian Airlines Flight was a scheduled flight from Addis Ababa to Milan via Rome on 17 February [1][2] The aircraft, an Ethiopian AirlinesBoeing BGER, was hijacked by the unarmed co-pilot, Hailemedhin Abera Tegegn, en route from Addis Ababa to Rome.
Aircraft
The aircraft involved was a Boeing BGER, MSN , registered as ET-AMF, that was built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in The aircraft was equipped with two Pratt & Whitney PW engines.[3]
Incident
Flight was scheduled to depart from Addis Ababa Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at EAT (UTC+3) on 17 February [4] The aircraft's transponder began to emit squawk — the international code for an aircraft hijacking — while flying north over Sudan.[5] When the pilot exited the cockpit to use the restroom, the co-pilot locked the cockpit door and continued to fly the aircraft.[6]
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