A commercial airliner has landed in Istanbul after a hijacking attempt, the AFP is reporting:
#BREAKING Airliner from Ukraine forced to land in Turkey after hijack attempt: media
— Agence France-Presse (@AFP) February 7, 2014
According to Today's Zaman, a Turkish news outlet, the plane landed at Istanbul's Sabiha Gökçen airport, and the pilot had sent a signal notifying officials of a hijacking attempt.
According to José Miguel Sardo, an editor at euronews, the flight was operated by Pegasus Airlines, had taken off from Kharkiv, Ukraine, and had 110 passengers on board. Sardo reports a Ukrainian tried to divert the plane to Sochi:
#Turkey: Pegasus kharkiv-Istanbul flight with 110 passengers hijacked allegedly by Ukrainian trying do divert plane to #Sochi - trk media
— José Miguel Sardo (@jmsardo) February 7, 2014
The airport is now closed to air traffic and the plane is being held in a secure zone.
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