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Hijackers still
hold hostages
STANSTED, England (AP) — A flight attendant ap
peared to be pushed out the back exit of a hijacked Afghan
airliner while negotiations over the release of the roughly
150 remaining hostages hit a tense new phase Wednesday,
after four crew members escaped out a cockpit window.
The rapport between hostage negotiators and the hi
jackers remained calm immediately after the escape, but
grew worse four hours later at about 3 a.m., when the cap-
tors seemed to realize the crew had disappeared, police said.
At that hour, a man was seemingly forced out a back
exit and left the plane down stairs, police said. It was un
clear if the release was triggered by the hijackers’ discov
ery that some hostages had escaped.
It was believed that 151 people including 21 children
remained aboard the aircraft, which was hijacked Sunday.
“What we are not able to determine is whether any of
the remaining crew on board or any of the passengers are
able to fly this aircraft,” said John Broughton, an assistant
chief constable of Essex County police.
Police confirmed that the four men who climbed down
a rope ladder slung from a cockpit window shortly before
11 p.m. Tuesday were Afghan crew members — the cap
tain, second captain, first officer and flight engineer. They
ran away from the plane toward a police containment area.
“Now we must set about
restoring the trust that
we had and developing a
rapport again”
— John Broughton
Assistant chief constable
“Inevitably, the escape of these men did upset the calm
atmosphere for a time and we have been working to restore
that calm,” said Joe Edwards, another assistant chief con
stable. “You can imagine their reactions when they dis
covered that the flight crew had gone.”
The man apparently pushed out the back of the plane
turned out to be a flight attendant. He was given medical
attention for a graze on his forehead and was debriefed by
police at Stansted Airport, north of London, Edwards said.
“After that, perhaps understandably things went qui
et. They stopped talking to us for about an hour,” Edwards
said. “We made contact again shortly before 6 a.m. be
cause we needed resupply fuel to the generator. And that
was OK.”
He said the tone of negotiations improved after that.
“We never lost confidence. Now we must set about
restoring the trust that we had and developing a rapport
again,” Broughton said. “Obviously it is going to be tense
and difficult.”
Four men, who were presumed to be hijackers, appeared
briefly on the ground at the rear of the plane during the
morning to collect fresh supplies.
The hijackers’ demands were unclear. Speculation
ranged from an elaborate play for political asylum to a bid
to win the release of Ismail Khan, a former regional gov
ernor in Afghanistan who has been held since 1997 by the
country’s ruling Taliban movement.
Broughton said the hijackers had made no “formal de
mands,” other than requests for food, water and other
comfort items.
The Ariana Airlines Boeing 727 had been headed to the
northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif from the Afghan capital,
Kabul, when it was seized early Sunday.
It then meandered across the former Soviet Union, stop
ping in Uzbekistan, Kazakstan and Russia before arriving
at Stansted early Monday.
In Kabul, an Ariana employee said today that
Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban had arrested several airline of
ficials responsible for security checks on the hijacked flight.
An Interior Ministry official, speaking on condition of
anonymity, said several Ariana employees were questioned
but were allowed to go back to work.
During two days of delicate negotiations, police have
expressed optimism about the safe release of the hostages
remaining — including 21 children.
According to some of the 22 passengers released be
fore the plane landed at Stansted, the hijackers numbered
between six and 10 and were armed with pistols, grenades
and daggers.
“We will be asking the crew about conditions, on board
and about how many hijackers are on board,” Edwards said.
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planes and artillery bombarded suspected rebel
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while militants reportedly staged sev eral overnight
attacks in Russian-controlled territory.
Russian shelling of three southwestern villages,
where rebels were believed to be hiding after es
caping the capital Grozny last week, eased. But au
tomatic gunfire was heard through the night in the
regional center of Achkhoi-Martan, in southwest
ern Chechnya.
Villagers in Shaami-Yurt, Katyr-Yurt and (iekhi-
Chu reported heavy civilian casualties, with hun
dreds of people killed or wounded, and damage to
close to three-quarters of the houses.
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mountains.”
Tass news agency reported. The military reported
no casualties in the firelights, which could not be
independently confirmed.
In another Russian-controlled town, Gudermes,
police confiscated 550 pounds of plastic explosives
that were being stored in a private house, the Inter
fax news agency reported. It said police had also
discovered a large collection of Islamic extremist
literature.
Russian airplanes and helicopter gunships flew
110 combat missions over the past 24 hours, the mil
itary said today. The targets included Shaami-Yurt
and Katyr-Yurt, as well as the Argun and Vedeno
gorges leading to the southern mountains. The
rebels use the gorges as supply routes and have
bases hidden along the snowy slopes.
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