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Can breathe. >> youre doing a great job, just stay calm, okay? >> just stay quiet and you will be kay. we are returning to the airport. >> whats going on? >> we contacted air traffic control. they are going to handle this. he turned the transponder off so we dont have a definitive altitude for him but they seem to think he is defending. >> a note was handed to me just as we came out of the teleconference. boston secenter has a suspected hijacker. i put the f-15s at the otis air national guard ba...

Light injuries. the prean has been evacuated. everybody has successfully left the plane after it was on a tarmac in istanbul for some time. all of the drama played out. the scrambling of turkish warplanes and the passengers ordering the crew to divert the plane here to sochi after the opening ceremonies began behind me in russias stadium that took place while the live opening ceremonies were under way but the turks were able to bring that plane down on the previously scheduled itinerary and i gu...

Government officials, that man claimed that there was a bomb on board the aircraft. and then demanded that it be diverted here to sochi. the plane is at an airport in istanbul and, again, our sister network cnn turk reporting that the suspected hijacker has been captured by turkish security forces as the plane has been on the ground at one of istanbuls key airports and also being searched for any possible or suspected bombs or explosives. now, the passengers have been on board that plane as the ...

Display is under way and the olympic name moments ago has been lit. we are hearing from turkeys semi official agency that the turkish pilots aboard the plane at 1820, 6:20 p.m. istanbul time, they put out a warping about the hijacking attempt and within 20 minutes, the agency is reporting the turkish airport scrambled f-16 war planes to the black sea to escort that plane to its original deft in addition in istanbul. that is where our sister agency has been there. they have taken the man into cus...

Airline hijacking connected to the opening of the olympic games in sochi. cnn has learned that the suspected hijacker wanted a turkish airliner diverted to sochi. our nick paton walsh is on the ground for us in sochi right now. the plane is in turkey, right, nick? tell us what we know. >> reporter: well, at this point, yes, its in the sabiha gokcen airport in istanbul. now, it was flying from ukraine, from the eastern city of kharkhov there. it had 110 passengers on board according to turkish of...

Want to update you on the breaking news weve been following out of turkey, a pegasus airline, airliner, there you see it, its a turkish airliner, private turkish airliner, was forced to land back in istanbul after a passenger on board claimed there was a bomb in the belly of that plane. wanted the plane to go to sochi for the winter olympic games. for some reason, we dont know what the motivation of the suspected hijacker was, but the pilot managed to fly the plane instead to the airport in ista...

This, again, is coming from our sister network cnn turk citing turkish security officials and now were getting another report from the jihan news agency, another turkish news agency, theyve published a photo of what they are reporting is the suspected hijacker aboard the plane surrounded by several empty seats and two men in uniforms. so, getting reports from various turkish news agencies that the suspected hijacker who claimed that there was an explosive device aboard this flight and tried to d...

The cockpit door, says officials. he then flew the boeing 767 with passengers and crew to geneva. after landing police say the suspected hijacker climbed out of the cockpit window, shimmied down a rope and then surrendered to authorities. the geneva airport executives say the hijacker who was ethiopian and in his 30s wanted asylum. they say all passengers and crew are safe. well keep an eye on that one. climate change compared to a weapon of mass destruction. that stark analogy from secretary ...