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Feb 18, 2014, 12:40 pm

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Originally Posted by Upgraded!

So would this technically fall under the category of highjacking or mutiny?

For a ship, believe it would be barratry. Mutiny is the crew rebelling against the officers, barratry is misconduct of the master against the owner.

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Originally Posted by JohnRain

Here's another, more FT-like angle on this story:
The hijacked plane was escorted by French and Italian fighter jets, because Swiss military jets only fly during regular business hours....(no joke)
You gotta love this country.

The article is in French:
http://www.tdg.ch/suisse/forces-aeri...story/16122563

Something about a treaty between Swiss/French air-forces. The French had planes on the 767.

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