Co-pilot wounded by passenger on KLM flight to China

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THE HAGUE: A man on a long-haul KLM flight from Amsterdam to Beijing attacked and slightly wounded a co-pilot before being subdued by other passengers, the Dutch airliner said Tuesday (Jan 5).

Witnesses, quoted by Dutch media, said the man had stabbed the co-pilot either with a knife or with a piece of broken glass in Sunday’s incident, but that was not confirmed by KLM.

“On Sunday, January 3, on board flight KL897 en route for Beijing, a confused passenger locked himself in the toilets and inflicted slight wounds on himself,” the airline said in a statement sent to AFP.

“He then slightly wounded the co-pilot in one of the kitchens in the cabin,” KLM added, stressing that at no point was the plane in danger.
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After the man “was overwhelmed he was attached to a seat for the rest of the journey,” the daily De Telegraaf said, quoting a witness. The attacker was taken off the flight by about 15 policemen who were waiting for the plane to land on the tarmac in Beijing, another witness told the paper.

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New Straits Times ‏@NST_Online 2m2 minutes ago

KLM says ‘disturbed passenger’ injures co–pilot #nst170 http://www.nst.com.my/news/2016/01/120645/klm-says-disturbed-passenger-injures-co-pilot …