(Eagle News)–No Filipinos were aboard the Biman Bangladesh flight which one man had attempted to hijack. This is according to the Department of Foreign Affairs that issued a statement on Sunday, Feb. 24. One man was arrested after he allegedly took out a gun after the plane took off from Chittagong in Bangladesh to Dubai. The plane, Flight BG-147, managed to turn around and return to the Chattogram airport, where all 142 passengers were evacuated.
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US, PHL troops simulate plane hijacking, hostage rescue
US and Philippine forces have staged an exercise simulating the seizure of an American plane by Islamic State and a hostage rescue, as they look to refocus their military alliance towards counter-terrorism. The five-day training exercise which ended Tuesday was the first of its kind and saw more than 400 troops, airport police and hostage negotiators create a mock hijack of a plane by an IS cell that forced it to land at Clark airport […]





