The 9/11 Effect
A man armed with two pistols hijacked an Air Mauritania flight Thursday but was subdued by two passengers, a Spanish official said.The senior Spanish government source said a man had been trying to commandeer the Boeing 737 to Paris…
Abass Bass, a representative of the Mauritanian Embassy in Washington, described the incident as a “tentative hijacking.”
“The information we had from Mauritania is that the passengers fought back and they took the hijacker and now everything is OK,” Bass told CNN.
