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Turkish Airlines Hijack Attempt
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1.       TheAenigma
5001 posts
 15 Oct 2008 Wed 02:13 pm

A hijacker who tried to take over a Turkish Airlines plane has been disarmed, reports say.

They say passengers on board the plane flying from the Turkish city of Antalya to St Petersburg, Russia, overpowered the unidentified attacker.

The Airbus A-320 with 167 people on board continued its flight after the incident, Turkey´s CNN Turk says.

Details of the incident - which reportedly happened in Belarus´ air space - remain sketchy.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7671373.stm

2.       libralady
5152 posts
 15 Oct 2008 Wed 03:05 pm

 

Quoting TheAenigma

A hijacker who tried to take over a Turkish Airlines plane has been disarmed, reports say.

They say passengers on board the plane flying from the Turkish city of Antalya to St Petersburg, Russia, overpowered the unidentified attacker.

The Airbus A-320 with 167 people on board continued its flight after the incident, Turkey´s CNN Turk says.

Details of the incident - which reportedly happened in Belarus´ air space - remain sketchy.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7671373.stm

 

Sounds a bit like the Turk that we had the pleasure of sitting next to on our last BA flight to Ankara, drunk and abusive.................. except we had been sitting on the runway for 6 hours and he had managed to consume nearly a whole bottle of whiskey

 

3.       white-wolf
55 posts
 16 Oct 2008 Thu 01:42 pm

He was from Ozbekistan, and dual password. He passed after made his demand to hijack the plane due to his high level of alcholol, lol. ATV showed some tv recordings of mentioned person, shoot some years ago. He certainly lacks some mental functions, it seems to me.

4.       libralady
5152 posts
 16 Oct 2008 Thu 02:37 pm

 

Quoting white-wolf

He was from Ozbekistan, and dual password. He passed after made his demand to hijack the plane due to his high level of alcholol, lol. ATV showed some tv recordings of mentioned person, shoot some years ago. He certainly lacks some mental functions, it seems to me.

 

 Apparently it was other passengers that subdued him ................... if that is the right word?? so perhaps he made it easy for them by passing out

5.       Roswitha
4132 posts
 16 Oct 2008 Thu 06:02 pm

Where is Ozbekistan, White Wolf?

6.       libralady
5152 posts
 16 Oct 2008 Thu 06:05 pm

 

Quoting Roswitha

Where is Ozbekistan, White Wolf?

 

 Most probably Uzbekistan - one of the old Russian states, below Kazahkstan and surrounded by numorous other stans.

7.       Roswitha
4132 posts
 16 Oct 2008 Thu 06:10 pm

Lots of violence goes on there, Libralady. A very primitive country, agree?

8.       vineyards
1954 posts
 17 Oct 2008 Fri 11:40 pm

I like Uzbek music... I believe I can understand about 20-25% of the Uzbek song lyrics. Looking at the video clips on youtube, I think they have a pretty modern society. As a matter of fact, all of these ex-Soviet republics have developed tremendously. Again there are all sorts of people in any country. I think majority of people from ex Soviet republics are way more intellectual and modern compared to rural and small town population in Turkey. This may even apply to majority of people in big cities like Istanbul who don´t know the first thing about how to live in a big city in harmony with other citizens.

 

There are people living in small villages or towns in Bayern or there are English towns still adhering to the medieval routines of living.  Can we consider these people really primitive too? As a matter of fact, I am not sure whether we can define the Zulu tribes in Africa as primitive. These are just different modes of civilization proving man´s ability to adapt to his environment. It is not as easy as it seems to live as a Kazakh or an Uzbek in the cold steppes of Asia bereft of many readily available comforts both natural and technological. It is in this context that we should try to understand those people.

 

There are countless enigmas in life it all starts with the fact that we don´t even know why we are living. Religion, traditions, culture and all other phenomena created by men are full of such enigmas keeping people together who are bound not only by their ignorance but also  of a need for knowing the essential truth. Let us stop judgeing people by their religions, ethnic origins, locations and cultures. They are not acting foolishly, they are just realizing the demands of an enigma whose internal workings are not known to outsiders.

 

Nazim Hikmet expressed his dream in one of his poems like this:

 

To live like a tree single and at liberty

And brotherly like the trees of a forest

9.       Roswitha
4132 posts
 18 Oct 2008 Sat 07:01 pm

I thank you so very  much  for your indepth explanation on the subjecty of the Uzbek people and also the the poem by Hikmet.

10.       tamikidakika
1346 posts
 19 Oct 2008 Sun 12:28 am

 

Quoting libralady

Most probably Uzbekistan - one of the old Russian states, below Kazahkstan and surrounded by numorous other stans.

 

what is a "stan", libralady? how do you define a "stan country"?

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