Friday, February fourteenth, the UN says at least 22 people have been killed in a village in the Northwest region of Cameroon. Over half of those killed were children. No one has claimed responsibility for Friday’s incident but the opposition parties blame the killing on the government.
EgyptAir: How can a plane be hijacked in the 21st century?
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Somewhere in the world, almost every day, a foolish, drunk or angry passenger will claim to have a weapon on board a plane. In many cases she or (usually) he will not be believed, and can be expected a welcoming committee of police upon arrival.
If there is a degree of plausibility, then the captain may decide to divert to the nearest airport - normally with the same result, but rather more disruption.
For someone with a convincing story but no actual weapon effectively to take control of an aircraft on a domestic flight and direct it to land in another country is, thankfully, rare. But the incident aboard flight 181 from Alexandria to Cairo says much about the tension prevailing in Egypt and beyond.
When the EgyptAir pilots were alerted by cabin crew to the threat, they will have had in mind the Metrojet holiday flight from Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg on 31 October. An Airbus crashed in the Sinai desert with the loss of all 224 people on board. It is believed to have been downed by a bomb planted while the plane was on the ground at the resort's airport.
A few
days later, the Foreign Office banned airlines from flying in and out of Sharm
el-Sheikh until airport security was improved - and mounted an unprecedented
series of rescue flights on which passengers were banned from taking luggage,
which was flown home separately. Egypt's prime holiday airport is still off
limits to UK airlines.
Every EgyptAir captain is acutely aware the apparent circumstances of the Metrojet tragedy. If the price of keeping passengers and crew safe appears merely to be a short diversion to a nearby island, it is the only rational course of action. But to the wider world, it adds to the sense that the Egyptian authorities are not fully in control of security - especially in that most sensitive area, the airport.
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