A man claiming to be an Iraqi supporter of President Saddam Hussein was overpowered after diverting a Yemeni plane to Djibouti with 91 passengers aboard including the US ambassador to Yemen, witnesses said.
The crew overpowered the hijacker, who was carrying a pistol. Two shots were fired in the air, but all the remaining passengers and crew are safe, an airport official said
"The flight engineer was injured in the hand, but everything is fine now," he said.
A witness said the pilot of the Boeing 727, on an internal flight within Yemen, had landed the craft in Djibouti, where most of the passengers, including US envoy Barbara Bodine, disembarked through an emergency exit.
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