Woman Storms Cockpit, Stabs Pilots, Tries To Hijack Plane
Highjacker
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A knife-wielding woman stormed the cockpit of a New Zealand domestic flight Friday, stabbed both pilots and threatened to blow up the plane before she was subdued, police said.
The Air National flight landed safetly at Christchurch in southern New Zealand and the 33-year-old woman was arrested, police said. None of the seven passengers were injured, but the pilot suffered a severely cut hand in the attack and the co-pilot was injured on the foot.
Police did not say who restrained the woman aboard the flight.
The flight took off from the regional city of Blenheim, 70 kilometers (40 miles) south of the capital of Wellington, bound for the tourist city of Christchurch, about 350 kilometers (220 miles) south of the capital.
Christchurch police commander Dave Cliff said the woman _ a Blenheim resident but originally from Somalia _ entered the cockpit and attacked the pilots before being restrained. She had said there was a bomb on board, Cliff said.
An army bomb disposal team conducted an initial search of the twin propeller Jetstream plane and found no explosives, Cliff said.
The passengers included four New Zealanders, an Australian and an Indian national. One passenger suffered a minor hand injury when the plane was evacuated on landing, shortly after 8:00 a.m. (1900 GMT).
Emergency vehicles surrounded the aircraft on the tarmac and the airport was closed to incoming and outgoing flights. The airport was reopened after about three hours.
Air New Zealand general manager of short haul airlines, Bruce Parton, said the airline was reviewing its security procedures.
“Today’s incident, although a one-off, has naturally given us cause to conduct a thorough review of our safety and security systems and processes on regional domestic flights,” Parton said.
Passengers boarding short haul flights at New Zealand airports do not routinely pass through security screening.
(AP)
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Somali hijacker? Hmmm Let’s see here.
Somalia=jihad=jihadi=scum=Islam=terrorist. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
No locks on the cockpit and no security screening? Not real smart. Bet the Aussies will be watching the towel heads next time by cracky.
February 7th, 2008 at 7:15 pmDan (The Infidel) -
“Surely” you don’t mean … PROFILING?!?! *GASP!*
February 7th, 2008 at 7:26 pm@drillanwr
Profiling? Who me? No way. That would be like…oh I don’t know…using common sense maybe? Calling a spade a spade?
Oh hell no, can’t do that. Don’t want to hurt anyone’s “sensibilities”?
February 7th, 2008 at 7:41 pmYa think?
By cricky they will now!
February 7th, 2008 at 8:07 pmI guess they need to tighten their immigration laws a little more, like Australia. (So do we, McCain!)
February 7th, 2008 at 8:37 pmi feel sorry for the passenger that hurt their hand gettin off the plane. they make it though this horrible situation without a scratch, then get hurt gettin out of the plane. sounds like something that would happen to me.
February 7th, 2008 at 9:01 pmdid you see that ron paul got 0 votes in west virgina. thought that was funny
February 7th, 2008 at 9:03 pmShe stabbed the co-pilot in the foot? This gets weirder and weirder …
February 8th, 2008 at 1:14 amHello Cross Bunnies!
Dan (The Infidel)
February 8th, 2008 at 2:15 amNew Zealand is a completely different country to Australia. Calling them Aussies is like calling a Canadian a Yank.
@London Calling:
Dan (The Infidel)
“New Zealand is a completely different country to Australia. Calling them Aussies is like calling a Canadian a Yank.”
Me: Hey troll, And that would be a compliment.
February 8th, 2008 at 3:30 amDan (The Infidel)
So are you up at 3:30am or are you a little further east than that and therefore should know that New Zealand is at least 3 hours flight time away from Australia!
February 8th, 2008 at 4:09 am@london Calling
I go by EST there…Peter. And you’re off topic slick. A little late for you to be up isn’t it? Did your mum give you permission to stay up this late?
February 8th, 2008 at 4:46 amDan (The Infidel)
It’s 1:15pm in London so I’m still ok for a few hours until my Mum’s curfew of 7:00pm.
So, getting back on topic …
Why on earth do you think Islam=Terrorist ?
February 8th, 2008 at 5:30 am@London Calling
‘Why on earth do you think Islam=Terrorist ?’
Maybe because the folks strapping explosives to the mentally challenged are Muslims, not Christians. Maybe because the people resposible for the London and Madrid explosions were Muslims, not Christians. Maybe becasue those responsible for 9/11 are Muslim, not Christians. Maybe because Christians don’t do honor killings and we don’t stone people to death………do you see the similarities or should I go on.
Lastly the Muslim Community as a whole plays a hear no evil, see no evil, do no evil game with regards to the acts of their Radical Brothers & Sisters.
February 8th, 2008 at 6:43 am@London Calling
Because I’ve read the Koran and the Hadith. And anyone in the ME knows that jihad means quital it ain’t an internal struggle. It is a struggle for supremacy and conquest.
Moreover, the Koran clearly states that only by killing or being killed in jihad can a Muslim get into heaven.
Passages such as Qur’an 2:190 (”Fight in the cause of Allah those who fight you…”) and 9:111: “Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs in return is the garden of Paradise: they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain…” There are numerous other passages enjoining violence against unbelievers (2:216; 9:5; 9:29; 47:4; etc.).
Lastly, a look at Muslim history during the first and second jihads shows their real intent.
In this third jihad OBL has made it clear that the west must either submit, convert or die to Islam. Those are the same choices their false prophet made when he and his followers conquered Medina, Mecca, North Africa, Turkey and the greater ME.
And any Muslim who says otherwise is either playing the tagyiya game, employing kitma or has become takfir, so says Muslim jurisprudence.
So what’s not to understand?
February 8th, 2008 at 7:16 amDan (The Infidel)/Paslode
Because there are probably over a billion Muslims in the world who don’t strap explosives to the mentally challenged or fly planes into buildings.
To lump the (agreed - too silent) majority in with a statistically tiny number of crazies is wrong. It skews your world view and your foreign policy into misadventures in the Middle East.
February 8th, 2008 at 9:03 am@London Calling
“Because there are probably over a billion Muslims in the world who don’t strap explosives to the mentally challenged or fly planes into buildings.”
Me: There are 1.2 to 1.4 billion Muslims worldwide.
“To lump the (agreed - too silent) majority in with a statistically tiny number of crazies is wrong. It skews your world view and your foreign policy into misadventures in the Middle East.”
Me: Not quite. Thirty per cent of those 1.2 billion Mooslems are jihadi. You do the math. Not exactly a small group.
Works like this:
80% are Sunni 20% are Shia
30% of all Muslims are jihadists. Mostly Salifists. Not a strange figure considering that Whabbiists in Saudi are the ones building the Mosques around the world.
30% Are potential jihadis. These are the ones the Salifists are recruiting in the Mosques.
30% Are sympathethic to the jihadis, and will give money to adavance their jihad, but are trying to avoid being a jihadi.
10% Are westernized Muslims. They have assimilated and are not interested in the jihad at all. They exist mainly in the west. They are takfir to the Jihadis as are the last 30%.
Conclusion: One could also conclude that not all Germans were Nazi in WWII. But the west didn’t take any chances and considered all Germans to be potentially subversive and thus gave them a great deal of scrutiny. So should the attitude towards Muslims be today.
When I see a Mooslem on a plane or in a line…I watch him/her like a hawk; waiting to pounce on them at any indication that they might pose a threat to other passengers or myself. I notice that others are doing the same. I trust none of them.
February 8th, 2008 at 1:12 pmHi Dan,
What is the source of your figures?
You are saying that 360,000,000 people in the world today are actively preparing to wage war on non-Muslims.
February 8th, 2008 at 2:02 pm@London Calling
That’s right, I am. Sources? I got multiple sources.
I give you a few references. Draw your own conclusions.
“Because They Hate” - Brigitte Gabriel
“Unveiling Islam” Ergun Caner
“Islamic Imperialism” Efraim Karsh
“The Legacy of Jihad” - Andrew Bostom
“Defending the West” - Ibn Warriq
“Islam Rising” Jim Murk
“The Al Queda Reader” - Raymond Ibrahim
Shall I go on?
February 8th, 2008 at 3:00 pm@London Calling
Another tidbit. This one from Ali Sina:
“…There is nothing more hate mongering than Islam. This doctrine is more evil than Nazism and communism. It inspires more hatred and causes more division than either one of these ideologies that are also hate based. Islam is more insidious because it claims to be from God. It is this added lie that has given it longevity. As Hitler used to say, the bigger the lie, the more believable it becomes. Islam is the biggest deception ever.
The question of how one can eradicate the faith of a billion plus people who are willing to die and kill for their belief has never occurred to me. The answer was obvious all along. Islam is a lie and all it takes to dismantle a lie is truth. It does not matter how dark is the night; darkness can’t withstand light. In fact the darker it is the more vulnerable it becomes. Even a candle can pierce the heart of the darkest night.
I had prayed for faith. That too was granted to me. I have strong faith, not in fairytales and hocus pocus, but in goodness, in love and in truth. I have faith that if given the chance, goodness will triumph over evil, love will overcome hate and truth will demolish lies.
I do not believe that goodness will win automatically. In fact it is evil that wins by default. I do not think truth will prevail by itself. It must be told and defended. For the light of the truth to shine, it is necessary that the clouds of lies dissipate. If the gardener neglects the garden, weeds will suffocate the flowers. Someone must tell the truth. Someone must stand for what is right and fight the evil. It is not difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood. Nonetheless, truth must be upheld or lies will win.
The proponents of lies are always active. They are virulent and relentless. Light is more powerful than darkness but someone must hold the torch high and protect its light. Just as evil has an army of fools that operate though ignorance, the lovers of truth must also stand for what they believe, form their ranks and hoist their standard high. The battle between good and evil is a constant. This is an ancient truth. We have been fooled to disregard it. We have been deluded by our misguided political correctness and mistaken multiculturalism. Evil is always evil. If we do not weed it out constantly, it will take over.
I am convinced that the days of Islam are numbered; that this doctrine of hate is at its death throes. Do not let its size fool you; Islam is like a tower, erected on sand duns. All it takes to demolish it is to expose its foundation and let the lies that are supporting it blow away. This edifice cannot be remodeled. You can never reform Islam. It is firmly built on lies. You can only demolish it by exposing those lies and by telling the truth about the despicable and shameful character of its pedophile, rapist founder.
Reforming Islam is an exercise in futility. It is impossible and it will frustrate the efforts of those who try it. By trying to reform Islam you validate it. This was what Rumi and other benighted Muslim sears did. The Persians were more sophisticated and had a richer culture than their Arab conquerors. They could not stomach the absurdities of the primitive religion that was imposed on them. Not daring to reject it sulla pena di morte, they used their genius to reinterpret it and gave esoteric meanings to its blatantly asinine and banal concepts. They donned that brute with silken philosophies, and masked its ugly face with borrowed mysticism. Thus, they fooled themselves, mislead others and breathed a new life into the fetid corpse of this Arab cult. They envisioned a mirage in the barren desert of Islam and gave to the gullible false hopes.
It is foolish to believe that there are many forms of Islam. Islam is one, even though each Muslim interprets it in his own way. Only one interpretation is correct and that is the one that is closest to the thinking of Muhammad. The Salafis are closest to the truth. That is the Islam of Bin Laden and other jihadis. The oxymoronic “moderate Muslims” are merely fooling themselves. By upholding Islam they also validate it. They validate its terrorism even though they claim not to agree with it. These befogged so called moderates are far more dangerous than their terrorist brothers. The terrorists kill a few, while these misguided “moderates” prolong the lie of Islam and perpetuate the hatred and division of mankind for centuries to come.
Islam is a cult invented by a narcissist psychopath. It was a tool for a highway robber to enrich himself by giving the foolhardy, bogus promises of the afterlife and make him do his biddings to the point of self sacrifice. What is there to reform in Islam and why? If it is good why reform it and if it is bad why keep it? Why worship a plunderer mass murderer? Isn’t that foolish? It is stupid to tolerate this much stupidity. We must end this insanity by telling the truth and not by sugarcoating an old lie with more lies. ”
Indeed I can go on. I got MANY sources from both Islamics, ex-Islamics and Islamic scholars.
February 8th, 2008 at 3:29 pmDan.
I didn’t ask you for a reading list, I quite capable of finding that for myself. My question to you is quite clear. What is the source of your figure that 360,000,000 people in the world today are actively preparing to wage war on non-Muslims?
February 8th, 2008 at 4:32 pm@London Calling
I answered your question slick and concluded by implying that you might try and educate yourself with my references and then draw your own conclusions.
Got a problem with that? Or did you give up reading for Lent?
February 8th, 2008 at 6:10 pmDan
If you can’t site a proper empirical source for an unequivocal statement like “30% of all Muslims are jihadists” then my conclusion has to be that you’ve made it up.
February 9th, 2008 at 12:41 amTo London calling:
I don’t think the problem was that Dan didn’t answer your question, I think it is more a matter of you not wanting to believe it, no matter what sources he uses to substantiate it. Pretty much the problem lots of people have, it isn’t that the truth doesn’t exist, just too many people fail to believe it. Seems pretty obvious what the intention of the Islamists is, unless of course you haven’t seen the news lately.
February 10th, 2008 at 5:17 amPaul,
I see what you are saying here, I don’t like his Islam=Terrorist approach, so I’m very likely to be sceptical. But making statistics up just to assist your argument doesn’t help anyone.
30% of all Muslims are jihadists.
30% Are potential jihadis.
30% Are sympathethic to the jihadis.
10% Are westernized Muslims.
It just looks wrong - nice even spread of percentages, no percentage at all for harmless, peace loving Muslims. It’s just plain bollocks.
Also, if he hasn’t made them up then why give me a book list? To kick me into the long grass for a couple of months? Why not just say “ … from the book “The Legacy of Jihad” - Andrew Bostom page 181 . Study quoted “Islam and terror” - Tufts University 1997.”
He still could … now that would shut me up, wouldn’t it?
February 10th, 2008 at 9:56 am