‘Overpowered’: Passengers Beat 2 ‘Hijackers’ to Death on Chinese Flight
- Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:08pm by
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(Source: The Global Times)
The moral of this story is: Don’t try to hijack a plane in China.
Two would-be plane hijackers were beaten to death by passengers and crew aboard a flight bound for the regional Chinese capital of Urumqi on Friday, The Global Times reports. The men died in the hospital from the injuries they suffered at the hands of those whom they thought would be their victims.
There were a total of six men involved in the foiled plot to hijack the Tianjin Airlines flight. All of the men were reportedly Uyghurs, a local Muslim ethnic minority.
Less than 10 minutes after the plane took off from Hotan airport in southwest Xinjiang, China at 12:25 a.m., the men, aged 20 to 36, announced their intentions to horrified passengers and attempted to storm the cockpit using a “broken crutch” made of aluminum as a weapon.
But before they could get to the cockpit, they were tackled by passengers and crew members who tied them up with belts and restrained them until the plane made it back to the airport about 20 minutes later. There were reportedly 92 passengers and 9 crew members on the flight.
(Source: News.com.au)
“All six of the hijackers were ethnically Uyghur, and they tried to break into the cockpit using a broken crutch as a weapon, but were overpowered by passengers and crew,” Hou Hanmin, chief of the regional information office, confirmed to the Global Times.
Hanmin also said the investigation is ongoing and it’s unclear whether the men were part of a larger terrorist group. However, police are still examining materials the suspects were carrying, believed to be explosives.
At least seven people were injured in the scuffle with the hijackers. The remaining four suspects, who were lucky to escape with their lives, are currently in police custody.
The Global Times has more details:
Li Wei, director of the Institute of Security and Strategic Studies at the Beijing-based China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, told the Global Times that, judging by the nature of the hijack, it was a terrorist attack.
“The hijackers adopted violent measures to threaten the lives of civilians and their intentions are also suspicious since we’re coming up to July 5, the third anniversary of the riots in Xinjiang,” Li said. “The successful frustration of this terrorist plot proves that airport security is very important and that it’s also vital for the crew members and passengers to act quickly.”
Authorities have reportedly started house-to-house inspections in Hotan city after an illegal madrassa holding 54 children was raided earlier in June.
“Separatists in Xinjiang are trying to make some noise before the opening of the 18th National Congress of Communist Party of China on the meeting of WUC in Tokyo. It shows that the hijack and other serious terrorist attacks in southern Xinjiang are motivated by exile groups overseas and the connection is close and underground,” Li said.
At least 12 people were killed during terrorist attacks at the end of February, Xinhua reported.
Xinjiang officials participating in China’s annual parliamentary session in March stressed their determination to fight terrorism.
Dilxat Raxit, a spokesman for the German-based World Uyghur Congress, argues that the incident was only a fight over a seat dispute, not a hijacking attempt, according to News.com.au.
“We warn China not to use this incident as another excuse for crackdown,” he said in a statement.
Two of the four living suspects are reportedly being treated in a local hospital after mutilating themselves.
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Comments (133)
Magyar
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:48pmThe Chinese common man doesn’t have much thanks to the Commies.
I‘m guessing they didn’t want to have even less!
Glad to see they took matters into their own hands and finished the job
Report Post »Bum thrower
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 3:02pmI call that a DIY TSA!!! Way to go….
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 3:03pmIn light of this news story, it would seem their future is brighter than ours
Report Post »Angel_light
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 3:20pmI’m glad they took matters into their own hands too. It’s about time some people realize that the good outnumber the bad
Report Post »docgreen
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 3:21pmWe need to look at the Bigger picture on this! I understand they didn’t get to the **** Pit, but rember what the UK has found out about terrorists High Jacking American Planes and Crashing them into the olympics? We need to study everything about this group, because it sounds like that crutch was going to be used as a weapon. Its more insight to the Lengths that these terrorists will go through to Kill people! People we all need to Stand Up against muslims, all of them. The more they reproduce the more they spew their hate and the more terrorists they teach! Its all the same, there is NO peaceful muslim. Their Ideology is over populate and kill however you need to further the religion of islam! This is how mahammad came to power! He did this to deceive his rivals, in order to conquer and destroy his enemies! I hear the Knocking on the Door all you fellow Fishermen! Christians should understand it! Until we all confront islam and their False Prophet, the one the Bible tells us to watch out for, the sooner we can become whole again! People these are Evil Times we live in, these Satanic muslims have one Goal. KILL ALL INFIDELS where ever they are! Especially the JEWS and CHRISTIANS!….
Report Post »antiprogressive
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 4:35pmIn America, the “heros” would be arrested and prosecuted.
If they were employees of the airlines, they would be fired and the airline sued.
If they were TSA employees, the gov’t would be sued and add to our tax debt.
20 years ago, I would never have imagined China having it better than us.
Thank all the Progressives and Liberals that give the guilty more rights than the victims.
Report Post »And for you progressives and liberals that feel BAD for the hijackers –
KISS MY A$$.
GroundZero is Nuclear Demolition x3
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 5:16pmThis is how we know there were no WTC hijackers, TOO MANY PEOPLE ON BOARD. Take alleged Flt 77, where the MAJORITY of passengers were Navy.
Report Post »@Doc, what a bunch of BS. The Steve Jackson card game, Illuminati, clearly indicates the elite will use another nuke to create the caos. There is no way they can fake an airliner striking anything, there are no structures large or high enough to conceal a commercial airliner. In addition too many people are aware of how it was done the 1st time: http://youtu.be/uT1q0j5Pzr0
booger71
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 5:34pmIn China these men get honored, in the US they would be arrested.
Report Post »booger71
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 5:35pmGroundZero is Nuclear Demolition x3
Report Post »=============
Go back to your Alex Jones bunker
GENEPAGLIARI
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 6:29pmBush’s fault. Owebama would’ve had a beer with them and decried their rush to judgement.
Report Post »GroundZero is Nuclear Demolition x3
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:07pm@booger Alex Jones entire “truth movement” is based on SUPPORTING the HOAX that airliners were involved. Ergo, YOU BELIEVE WHAT ALEX JONES PREACHES!!
Report Post »Uranium Wedge
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:12pmDidn’t these ass wipes learn anything from United 93?
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 12:46amGroundZero is Nuclear Demolition x3
I heard there was 300 Navy people on that flight. no way it could have been hijacked.
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 12:35pmHave you noticed the common thread here: the hijackers were Muslim. Imagine that.
Report Post »dmerwin
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 1:23pmThe last sentence is critical.
Report Post »Spokesman for the terrorists asks that this not be used as an excuse to “crack down”, by which I guess he means, investigate and detain other members of the group.
americansfightingforcommonsense
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:51amThey all should be “Water Boarded” to see what the plan really was.
Report Post »RestoreCapitalism
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:47pmThis only serves to confirm that people all around the world would fight together against Islamic terrorism if only it weren’t for our politically correct governments standing in the way. Instead, they should be fighting these radicals and protecting the real innocents, instead of the jihadis. .
Report Post »I SPY
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:46pmStupid mudslims.
Report Post »hawkeyez
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:45pmIf this were America the passengers would be in jail on murder charges.
Report Post »I often wondered how the shoe bomber and the underpants bomber got off the plane without mutilating themselves.
2late4you
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 3:02pmSad but true
Report Post »DennisHabern1
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 4:33pmIt would be interesting to ascertain what part of their body that they mutilated. Was it that part?
They should have been permitted to go all the way. What 2 less Muslims, more or less. In
addition, Islam is the only Cult that dominates violence and subjugation. You have noticed that I
did not use the word religion, but rather Cult in referring to Moronic culture, created by a madman,
terorist, thief, killer and an abuser of women and children. This is something that they do not teach
in Muslim schools in the Middle East or elsewhere, as far as that goes!!! The only peace religion
is Buddhism and others like it. Islam is a form of deceit and lies, based upon lies, greed and
corruption that has evolved since the 7th centurd A.D.
Report Post »Tom K
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 4:39pmPolitical Correctness in America has Wussified the population and has brought us the “friendly” T.S.A. There are two reasons I will not fly: (1) The T.S.A. that will NOT prophile. (2) “Wuss” passangers that won’t attack a knucklehead passanger that turns dangerous. Wow, I might fly IN China, but I’d have to travel there by SHIP ! Ain’t going there; there are enough Communists Here !
Report Post »Tree_Butcher
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 11:28pmThey would be No-Billed in Texas.
Report Post »cantbelieveallthisgarbagecouldhappenwhodoislap
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:44pmChina wont mess around with these FOOL MUSLIMS
Report Post »like we will in the usa,they would be sitting on easy street here !
I love America,but I have complete disrespect for our leaders and lawyers (same thing).no moral having power hungry,truth twisting,sneaky ,theiving,vote buying, none boarder protecting,job destroying,back stabing,socialist lovin, media bought and paid for,RAT BASTARDS
wordweaver
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:35pmNot many details in the article about how the two terrorists went from being subdued by passengers to dead. I guess the motto of Tianjin airlines is “What happens at 30,000 feet, stays at 30,000 feet.”
Report Post »docgreen
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 3:25pmWouldn’t that be International Air? Open the Door and push them out if they want to meet allah and his side kick mahammad in h_ll!…..
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:33pmreal men are animals when necessary…when necessary…when necessary..
Report Post »jaelge
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:32pmWe could have used some people with guts like that on 9/11 instead of weak Americans that are indoctrinated to believe that “this can’t happen to me”.
Report Post »It’s still hard for me to believe that men with mo more than box cutters over took those flights to produce ten years and going of war, hatred, and havoc. Kudos to those Chinese passengers and crewmen that refused to be victims. We Americans can learn from this. There truly is strength in numbers.
tommyg524
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:40pmthats what the central bankers wanted, it was all a ruse, in a first of many steps to shift the wealth, and make more wealth for the corporation who profit on both sides of war,and the wars which spurned from it ,of course. im just glad those WMD’s didnt get off the ground in iraq aye, you?
Report Post »FedUpWithLibs
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:41pmAt least one of the 911 planes had some people with some balls on them. Can’t really ask for much more from our politically correct to a fault and pu55y liberal society.
Report Post »Cavallo
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:50pmBefore 9-11 no terrorists used the planes as weapons. The conventional and oft repeated wisdom was to sit down, shut up, and let the professionals negotiate with the hijackers. It wasn’t until they heard on Flight 93 that they were using the planes as bombs did they quickly rise up and attack. Since then, hijacking a plane has met with some pretty serious consequences.. just ask the Shoe Bomber.
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 3:13pmDuring 9/11 people had no idea what was happening, were in shock & had no idea how to react…. after receiving cell phone calls from family the one plane that took action knew what was happening and they knew that this didn’t have a good ending. Personally I think I would have been in total disbelief PRIOR to 9/11. Who knew much about islam?
Report Post »Wojciech W.
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 3:39pm@Cavallo and that has been the problem with born and bread Americans. You have no balls! You have no fire in your heart(generally speaking). that is why they deserved to die. Not because of the terrorists, but because they sat there and took it, even when they outnumbered those 160 pound little dirt-bags. I spent a year “guarding” these idiots in a prison in Iraq. They love bragging how they killed Americans and our allies and innocent civilians. But you take them out of that cage and confront them face to face without a weapon. They shut the hell up right quick. They are nothing to be afraid of. JUST KILL THEM. Like Jefferson did all those years ago. You can’t reason or rehabilitate evil/crazy. Don’t even try. Oh, FYI, when we turned over those prisons to the Iraqi, they killed majority of them. They did what we couldn‘t or wouldn’t do.
Report Post »Wojciech W.
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 3:42pm@Want our country back to answer your question, the rest of the world did and President Jefferson! Ignorance is NO EXCUSE.
Report Post »BeeDee
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 6:52pmwhat was the flight in Pa? the one that the passengers resisted, and crashed in the field in Schenksville? I think they fought back…
Report Post »thop1960
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:31pmWonder where they got that idea from? Flight 93? At least the Chinese have learned from 911. Can that for most Americans. Moral of the story; Act quickly and swiftly, leave no doubt of your intentions. The longer you sit around and think about it, the greater the chance your gonna die…
Report Post »jaelge
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:48pmI don’t think they learned **** from Americans.
Report Post »We on the other hand could learn from them. We are more
sheep over here than any where thinking some how the next
guy will do spmething. Our complacency and inate sense of
entitlement is what allowed those nuts weilding nothing more
than department store box cutters to perpetrate the WTC and other
plane projectiles. 150 or more American airline passengers against
four to six nuts with box cutters. Ridiculous and shameful!
Shellback
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:28pmMooosslimms???? Go figure. Plus I thought the terrorists and terrorism didn’t exist anymore according to the campaigner-in-chief.
Report Post »tomloy
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:26pmGotta love it! Methinks you’ll see less muslims attempt this now.
Report Post »contkmi
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:33pmWe could probably start by making most of the Middle East into a parking lot.
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:34pmThis is funny, try a stunt like this in a country that most people know a form of martial arts. These hijackers must be progressives . Everybody was kung fu fighting ha ha ha ha
Report Post »Inlightofthings
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 3:45pmMUTINY:
Report Post »I thought we were…something akin to the enemy within.
Mutiny
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:26pmWe are fighting wars for everyone else, when do we invade Uyghurs?
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:31pmNot sure if you noticed champ..the Uhygurs did the “invading” and they were stopped.
Report Post »Mutiny
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:37pmI dont think I said they didnt do the invading. We are fighting wars for everyone else, why not fight a war for China also.
Report Post »Inlightofthings
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 4:33pmMUTINY:
Report Post »I thought we were…something akin to the enemy within.
Walkabout
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 12:37amMutiny
We are already are. We already paroled some Uyghurs from Guantanamo. Why they would want to study the Koran in the tribal regions of Pakistan in stead of Soviet (Russian) Central Asia or Saudi Arabia is quite the mystery.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:25pmAnd of course Janet Incompetano is trying to work out if “the system worked”.
Report Post »Balthazor
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:25pmAnd in related news, Jackie Chan and Jet Li are scheduled to fly to Urumqi on Friday to begin work on a new film… :)
Report Post »Shellback
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:34pmAnd Donnie Yen.
Report Post »vic138
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:24pmMaybe they thought the chinese would do what we did and send them to an island in the south pacific. Oops…
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:20pmUyghur, isn’t that the same terrorist group that were given a beach house in the Bahamas on our dime by this administration. (WEEGERS???)
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:24pmOne and the same!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:31pmOne and the same. “Wee-gers”. From what I remember, ours were completely harmless and unjustly incarcerated though. (sarcasm)
Report Post »Wojciech W.
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 3:09pmThank God I’m not President. I would lift the restriction of executing enemy combatants. I’m glad that our founding fathers are not here to see this. Stupid ppl here in America and in other so-called civilized countries have forgotten. Freedom isn’t free, and you can’t reason with evil and crazy. That’s why we lost every war starting with Vietnam. When these fools realize how easy it is to invade America from our north and south borders there will be no going back.
Report Post »Wonder if Barry said there is no more terrorism, he knows there here and he wants there vote. HAHAHA that’s just silly ….
Wojciech W.
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 3:25pmcorrection: “Wonder if Barry said there is no more terrorism because he knows they’re here and he wants their vote.”
Report Post »Snickelz
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 12:44amyes, you are correct, they were the very same ones.
Report Post »Cavallo
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:18pmBravo!!!. I wonder if the MSM will report this, or that the terrorists were Muslims?
Report Post »HKS
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:23pmThey will report it as a racial disturbance.
Report Post »Capitalist Mama
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 5:05pmWonder if the passengers will be described as “white Asians”…?
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:18pmThey will shoot the other four in the back of the head and bill their relatives for the bullet……..as we try to get major Hassan , who killed thirteen soldiers, to shave his beard, ,,,,,,we are so screwed…
Report Post »Inlightofthings
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 3:52pmYes, if state side it would take some time to send the passengers to sensitivity and diversity training to help them appreciate and ultimately empathize with the plight of the hijackers. Then would come the lawsuits on behalf of the dead hijackers families for excessive use of force. Oh, and then the lawsuits on behalf of the hijackers that mutilated themselves since they did not receive proper care, attention and protection from themselves. I can’t turn the sarcasm button off for some reason.
Report Post »TruthonlyBeTold
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:16pmLots of guts and courage.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:15pmIf this had been an American flight, Holder would prosecute them for murder.
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:22pmhaha….. they are gone gone gonzo. Great point.
Report Post »FaithfulFriend
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:15pmDon’t chinese planes break and have to be replaced every 6 months?
Report Post »amyb73
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:23pmAnd the TSA would start confiscating canes, crutches, and wheelchairs from little old ladies.
Report Post »amyb73
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 5:27pmWeird… I was replying to Gonzo’s post above.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:15pmWhat people seem to CompartmentMentalize… is that Humans, with great & pure self images of themselves… are ALL of a Preditor Species!
Report Post »Baja
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:15pmMuslims? So shocking.
Report Post »randy
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:14pmGood! 2 More muslims gone!
Report Post »DennisHabern1
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 4:49pmI am waiting for Noah to be recalled to Earth so that he can commence to build a fleet of Arks
in which to return the Blacks and Muslims from whence they came, if you follow. Does everyone
believe that is cruel and inhumane treatment? Tough. America first, the rest of the world, second.
Report Post »Welcome Black Carter
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 5:57pm“Two of the four living suspects are reportedly being treated in a local hospital after mutilating themselves.”
I love that part. Reminds me of our local police in the 70′s. If you resisted or were just a nasty thug, the elevator would stop between floors and the hand cuffed thug would “mutilate himself” and then the elevator would reach it’s destination. We called it an “elevator ride” but if the chi-coms want to call it “mulitating themselves” that’s perfectly fine…
Report Post »lassiegirldawn
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:12pmI give these passengers a gold star.
Report Post »ZBP
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:30pm2 gold stars.
Report Post »JerkyMiester
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:42pmActually, 1 big gold star flanked by 4 little ones.
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