Freed - Indian woman in hijack 'threat'

Penang: An Indian woman who was arrested Tuesday for allegedly threathening to hijack a Malaysia Airlines (MAS) plane, has been released after police recorded her statement.
Penang CID chief SAC II Datuk Abdul Samah Mat said the 35-year-old woman was released at about 2am Wednesday on police bail as the authorities were satisfied with her statement.
During the interrogation, police found that she did not have criminal intent when uttering the word "hijack" and she said it when she was angry, he said.
He said the woman, who is married to a local man and has stayed in Penang since four years ago, got angry at the chief steward for not allowing her two children to enter the cockpit.
Abdul Samah said the woman had earlier taken an Emirates Airlines flight from Cairo to Kuala Lumpur and on that plane, her two children (one-year-old son and two-year-old daughter.) were allowed into the cockpit.
On the flight from Kuala Lumpur to Penang, she had hoped they would be able to do the same but the MAS crew refused to let them into the cockpit because of the company's security policy, he said.
"Because of the refusal, she got angry and said 'Do you think children can hijack a plane? If it were me, I can hijack' to the chief steward," he said.
18/05/07 Daily Express, Malaysia

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