Namibian.com: Two hijackers shot dead on Ethiopian internal flight

http://www.namibian.com.na/2002/june/africa/026654DBE1.html

Posted 6/13/2002

Two youths who tried to hijack an internal Ethiopian Airlines flight were

shot dead Sunday by national security agents on board, Radio Ethiopia

reported.

One of the plane’s two stewards was slightly injured during the attempted

hijacking, the official radio said quoting Ethiopian civil aviation

security chief Bekretsion Habte.

The hijackers, aged 20 and 22, tried to seize a plane that had taken off

from Bahir Dar in the northeast for Addis Ababa at 4:40 pm with 42

passengers on board. It finally completed its flight as scheduled, Habte

said.

The youths, identified as Tesfaouni Yeneabat, 22, and Tewodros Mekonen,

20, both from Bahir Dar, tried to seize the Fokker 50 half an hour into

the flight and were shot dead by national security agents, Habte said.