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Knife-wielding hijacker arrested in Japan; pilot killed
July 23, 1999
Web posted at: 12:21 a.m. EDT (0421 GMT)
TOKYO (CNN) -- The pilot of an All Nippon Airways plane hijacked on Friday was killed during a struggle with the knife-wielding man who staged the incident.
The man controlled the plane for an hour before being subdued. The plane had been carrying 517 people on a domestic flight from Tokyo to northern Japan on Friday.
Television reports said he hijacker also had been injured, but that no passengers had been hurt.
A Transport Ministry official said the plane had landed at Tokyo's Haneda Airport at 12:14 p.m. (0314 GMT) but was unable to confirm media reports that the hijacker had demanded to go to a U.S. Air Force base in Yokota, western Tokyo.
Officials said the man had entered the cockpit of ANA flight 61, which had departed Haneda at 10:55 a.m. (0155 GMT), and forced the co-pilot to leave.
The pilot then contacted Haneda air traffic controllers.
Neither the Transport Ministry official nor officials at Haneda were able to say what, if any, demands the hijacker had made.
Kyodo news agency said the hijacker had been taken into police custody.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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