Ethiopian Airlines Flight 702

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Ethiopian Airlines Flight 702
Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767-300ER Ates-1.jpg

Boeing 767 of Ethiopian Airlines with registration ET-AMF
Accident summary
Accident type Airplane hijacking by copilot
place SwitzerlandSwitzerland Genève-Cointrin
date 17th February 2014
Fatalities 0
Survivors 202
Injured 0
Aircraft
Aircraft type Boeing 767-300
operator Ethiopian Airlines
Mark ET-AMF
Departure airport EthiopiaEthiopia Addis Ababa
Stopover ItalyItaly Rome Fiumicino
Destination airport ItalyItaly Milan Malpensa
Passengers 193
crew 9
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The Ethiopian Airlines flight ET702 was a flight of Ethiopian Airlines with the registration ET-AMF with a Boeing 767-300, which was kidnapped on February 17, 2014 with the threat of violence on the flight from Addis Ababa to Rome by co-pilot Hailemedhin Abera Tegegn . The plane then flew past Rome to Geneva . No persons were injured and the aircraft remained undamaged after the copilot apparently took control of the aircraft by locking himself in the cockpit when the captain went to the toilet. The copilot himself informed the authorities about the hijacking of the aircraft. He threatened to crash the plane if the captain didn't stop breaking down the cockpit door. His goal was to apply for political asylum in Switzerland. The copilot was arrested after landing without resistance after climbing out of the cockpit window. After deviating from the flight plan, the aircraft was accompanied by two Eurofighters from Aeronautica Militare . The brother of the kidnapper stated in an interview that his brother neither politically persecuted is still poor, but to paranoia suffer.

The hijacked aircraft was escorted by French and Italian warplanes in accordance with international conventions. The Swiss airspace was not flown over until the final approach . National and international media noted that the Air Force's jet operations were only operational during office hours on weekdays. A motion that had been pending since 2010 had called for the expansion of flight operating times (stopped for lack of money) and the parliamentarians discussed the army's priorities again after the incident. In 2016 the time was extended on weekdays, in 2017 the weekends were added and from January 1, 2019 the time was extended to 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. as planned. At the end of 2020, it will be expanded to 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Prosecution

An Ethiopian court sentenced the kidnappers for air piracy in absentia to 19½ years in prison. The Swiss authorities had refused an extradition. In 2015, a psychiatric report revealed that he was incapable of judgment at the time of the kidnapping . He was first in the closed psychiatry, then in prison. He stayed there until on May 9, 2016 the Federal Criminal Court ordered an inpatient therapeutic measure after a hearing on the offenses of deprivation of liberty, kidnapping and disruption of public transport .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dennis Lynch: VIDEO: Inside The Plane That Was Hijacked By Its Own Co-Pilot . In: Business Insider . Retrieved March 6, 2014.
  2. ↑ Co-Pilot Hijacks Ethiopian Plane and Requests Asylum in Geneva nytimes.com
  3. ^ Witness statements after the hijacking of the aircraft nzz.ch
  4. ↑ This is the Ethiopian hijacker 20min.ch
  5. ↑ The copilot was the kidnapper ( memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) tagesschau.de
  6. ↑ Co-pilot hijacks Ethiopian Airlines aircraft aljazeera.com
  7. ↑ This is what happened to the passengers on the 20min.ch plane
  8. ^ Co-pilot hijacked plane to Geneva faz.net
  9. ↑ Ethiopian Airlines hijacking ends with co-pilot's arrest in Geneva The Guardian
  10. ↑ The hijacker wanted to apply for asylum in Switzerland. Blick, February 17, 2014
  11. ↑ Anna Kappeler: Airplane hijacker is paranoid. ( Memento from March 8, 2014 on WebCite ) In: Schweiz am Sonntag from February 23, 2014
  12. ↑ French fighter jets accompanied hijacked Ethiopian plane into Geneva when co-pilot threatened to crash because Swiss air-force ONLY WORKS OFFICE HOURS dailymail.co.uk
  13. ↑ Swiss Air Force should soon be operational around the clock sueddeutsche.de, created February 20, 2014, accessed February 20, 2014
  14. ^ Aircraft hijacked to Geneva Neue Zürcher Zeitung , accessed February 20, 2014
  15. ↑ Expansion of the air police service is progressing step by step , SRF, December 9, 2016
  16. ↑ 24-hour air police service costs 30 million , SRF, December 1, 2015
  17. ↑ The Air Force's permanent ability to intervene is under construction ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ↑ pilot must kidnapping before the Federal Criminal Court in: Tages-Anzeiger .ch February 27 2016th
  19. ↑ Co-pilot sentenced to inpatient measure , NZZ, May 10, 2016