Conference turris::scandia

324.0. "Hijacked airliner" by TLE::SAVAGE () Thu Nov 03 1994 15:33

            OSLO, Norway (AP) -- An airliner with 129 people on board was
    hijacked during a domestic flight over northern Norway Thursday and
    forced to fly to Oslo, police said.
            The news agency NTB said the hijacker or hijackers were
    believed to be Bosnians and may be armed. The report could not be
    immediately confirmed. It was it not clear what types of weapons
    they had, and police would not say whether they had made any
    demands.
            The plane, Scandinavian Airlines System flight 347, was
    hijacked on a flight from the town of Bardufoss to the Arctic city 
    of Bodo.
            Fifty-two people were allowed to leave the plane after it
    landed in Bodo, police said.
            Bodo police chief Bjorn Hareide said officers surrounded the
    plane at the airport, but decided to let it take off for the safety
    of the remaining passengers.
            ``It was a situation that I saw as a threatening,'' he said.
            After an hour and 45 minutes on the tarmac, the plane flew to
    Gardermoen charter airport outside Oslo, said Kjell Bergland, a
    police officer at the airport.
            The state radio network NRK said a bomb threat was called in at
    main Oslo airport, Fornebu, at the same time as the hijacked plane
    landed at Gardermoen.
            It was unclear whether the incidents were related.