CALCUTTA: Two Burmese students carrying a fake bomb made ‘out of a soap hijacked Thai jetliner to Calcutta on Saturday to dramatize demands for an end to military rule in Burma.
All of the 219 other passengers and crew aboard the plane were released gradually over a six hour period before the hijackers gave themselves up to police. No one was hurt, police said.
The Thai Airways Airbus 300 was hijacked during a flight from Bangkok to Rangoon, the capital of Burma.
The two students told a news conference they were unarmed and carried only a fake bomb made out of bars of soap with protruding wires. A third Burmese student was supposed to participate in the hijacking, but the trio ran low on money in Bangkok and could only afford two plane tickets, they said.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 16, 1990
