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Hijacked plane lands at Frankfurt airport-police
FRANKFURT, Jan 5 (Reuters) – An armed man who hijacked a light plane and circled the skyscrapers of Germany’s financial capital Frankfurt has landed at the city’s airport, police said on Sunday.
The man had threatened to crash the plane into the tower of the European Central Bank, officials said. Police said they had detained the man after the plane landed.
A spokesman for air traffic control said the armed man forced a pilot to take off from Frankfurt’s Babenhausen airfield at 2:55 p.m. (1355 GMT).
The sight of an unauthorised plane flying among Frankfurt’s skyscrapers conjured up frightening images that recalled the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States involving hijacked planes.
REUTERS