STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN: A man who hijacked a Russian airliner with two hand grenades said he paid $54 in bribes to avoid security checks at a Russian airport. “They let you take the bag through another entrance and no one knows what are in it narcotics, weapons or something else,” hijacker Tamerlane Musayev was quoted as Saying. Musayev, 27, commandeered the Tu134 airliner Feb.20 to Stockholm via Tallinn, Estonia.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 26, 1993