A foiled attempt of high-jacking a plane at Dubai airport
United Arab Emirates, Local, 12/19/2000

The United Arab Emirates UAE police on Monday foiled a high0 jacking attempt of a plane owned by the Pakistani Airline company Pea carried out by an Egyptian at Dubai's airport.

Air naval sources said on Monday that the incident y ook place when the police discovered that the Egyptian carried a false passport as the plane which came from Karachi in its way to London stopped at Dubai's port.

The director of the Pakistani company in Dubai Shahid Latif said that the Egyptian who was carrying a false Belgian travel document could take a knife from the plane and headed to the cabin of the plane's captain and asked him to take off immediately to London.

The Egyptian also refused to abide by a routine check operation of passports on the board of the plane and the police was informed upon notification and could control the situation and arrested the passenger who surrendered immediately.

Latif said that Dubai's police decided not to accuse the Egyptian passenger of any charge and just expelled him back to Karachi.

The wife of the Egyptian man and his children were with him on board of the plane which take off for London after a delay of 3.5 hours.

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