PILOT FLIES TO ITALY AT PISTOL POINT
ROME, June 4. A Yugoslav civil plane landed at an airport near Bari tonight with passengers who were reported to have forced the pilot at pistol point to fly to Italy. The plane belonged to a Yugoslav civil airline, and carried 22 Yugoslav passengers, including some women and a crew of six.
The pilot said he was en route from Belgrade to Sarajevo on the regular service when the radio operator and a passenger with a revolver forced him to fly to Bari.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22657, 7 June 1948, Page 5
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