ericferret
8th Jun 2013, 12:42
I hadn't realised that someone was injured in the incident video, hence removed.
Thanks Bravo 73
Bravo73
8th Jun 2013, 13:00
From Wiki:
On 22 May 2011, at around 4.30pm a man approached a member of the Garda Síochána (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garda_S%C3%ADoch%C3%A1na) in Cork City Centre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cork_%28city%29) who was sitting in his traffic corp jeep. The man got into the vehicle began to beat up the Garda, produced a knife, before slashing his face, the Garda then jumped from his jeep. The man then hijacked (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carjacking) the Garda's traffic corps jeep before, hitting vehicles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicles) en route to Cork Airport while Gardaí gave chase. At around 4.50pm the man arrived at Cork Airport, rammed through the perimeter fence near the Cargo terminal (Gate 19), before abandoning the Garda jeep after it broke down, he then again produced a knife, and again hijacked a vehicle which belonged to the Airport Fire Service (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_Police_%28Ireland%29), by this time Air Traffic Control (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Traffic_Control) had suspended all operations. The man began to drive erratically (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/erratic) coming into close contact with a Thomas Cook (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cook_Airlines_Belgium) flight driving underneath the aircraft at high speed, the incident was captured on YouTube (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube) by a passenger waiting to board a flight.[24] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cork_Airport#cite_note-24) The man proceeded to ram (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battering_ram) several Garda and airport vehicles, before attempting to ram an Aer Lingus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aer_Lingus) aircraft bound for Amsterdam. The man's vehicle stalled (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stall_%28engine%29) which prevented him from ramming the Aer Lingus jet, the jeep halted just feet from the Airbus A320-200 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A320-200) aircraft, where members of the Armed Gardaí subdued the man by tasering (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taser) him, during the chase in the airport another Garda was injured and transported to hospital after his car was rammed by the assailant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assailant). Flights where resumed after the man was removed from airport property and the perimeter secured.
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