It was at half past eleven in the morning, a plane from Aeroflot took off from Moscow with his sights set on the city of Surgut in central Russia.
According to several Russian media, a passenger on board suddenly have demanded that the plane changed course and headed towards Afghanistan. The passenger shall have behaved in a threatening manner and demanded to be let into the cockpit. By his own admission he should have had a weapon. However, it is unclear if that was the case.
the passenger by convincing him that the plane needed to make an emergency landing to refuel in the town of Chanti Mansiysk, approximately 300 kilometers from the planet’s måldestination.
the Passenger, who shall be a man in their 40s, were arrested at the airport of the Russian antiterrorkommittén. No person has come to harm and the mood of the airport according to the Russian media to be quiet.
The state news agency Ria reports that the suspect the man was drunk.