Pilot overpowers hijacker
NZPA-Reuter Rome The pilot of a hijacked Alitalia Boeing 727 overpowered a Soviet refugee armed with a knife who forced the jetliner with 109 people aboard to land in Sicily, officials said yesterday. No-one was injured during the 3*/2 hour-ordeal aboard Flight AZB7I from Algiers to
Rome at the week-end. All but ithree crew members had been released shortly after the plane touched down at Catania's Fontanarossa airport. ' Captain Leonardo Senisi jumped the hijacker in the cockpit as he negotiated with the .police over the radio, according to a police spokesman. Captain Senisi and two
other crew members — copilot Ezio Bertonini and flight engineer Donato Longo — then handed the hijacker over to the police. The police identified him as Igor Shkuro, aged 32. a native of Leningrad, travelling under several passports, including one from Australia. They said that Shkuro. a resident of Rome, was being questioned by officials before
being sent to the city jail. ‘ He only spoke in broken English, they said. It was not immediately known when or why he left the Soviet Union. Officials did not speculate on a motive for the hijacking. But the police sources said that Shkuro apparently had flown to Algiers the day before in hopes of setting up a . home in Algeria.
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