A Turkish Airlines
pilot's mistaken activation of a hijack alarm triggered a high-octane
security deployment at Vienna airport on Friday, Austrian police said.
The
error -- coupled with a depressurization warning and then unexplained
radio silence from the cockpit -- led to two jet fighters being
scrambled to escort the Boeing 737 to land at Vienna's Schwechat
airport.
The passenger plane had been flying from Frankfurt to
Istanbul when panicked passengers saw oxygen masks fall from the ceiling
after it was hit by a pressurization problem.
The pilot -- who
had asked to make an emergency landing -- apparently inadvertently
activated the hijack alarm as he responded to the problem, police said,
confirming a report on the website of the daily Kurier newspaper.
Authorities stepped down from their hijack alert status 40 minutes after the plane landed, Kurier said.
- Source: http://www.thelocal.at
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