Update: The plane was in fact hijacked by the co-pilot and landed safely in Switzerland. Aside from some rattled nerves, nobody on board was hurt, the plane landed safely in Geneva, and the terrorist is in custody.
Did Ethiopian Airlines Flight 702 get hijacked? Something strange happened on Ethiopian Airlines Flight 702 #ET702 from Addis Ababa to Rome, Italy landed instead in Geneva. There were reports all over Twitter that Ethiopian Airlines Flight 702 #ET702 was hijacked. Ethiopian Airlines posted the following press release earlier tonight, then suddenly deleted it and posted a revised statement:
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What do they mean ‘forced to proceed?’ No one knows what’s really happening. It sounds like thankfully the plane landed safely in Geneva and all the crew and passengers are safe.
No official news from GVA airport. But #ET702 marked as landed on airport website pic.twitter.com/4Su71VagpJ
— Panos Meyer (@PanosMeyer) February 17, 2014
Here was #ET702’s approach into GVA (note slight misalignment of red aircraft vs yellow official/emergency vehicles) pic.twitter.com/yagIRcusmI
— John Walton (@thatjohn) February 17, 2014
Lots of talk about a possible hijacked plane. Ethiopian Airlines 702… circling Geneva… squawking 7500 (hijack). Looking for confirmation
— Kamahl Santamaria (@KamahlAJE) February 17, 2014
As usual, H/T Twitchy.