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Airline Hijacking: Istanbul-to-Moscow Flight Seized

Aired March 15, 2001 - 8:20 a.m. ET

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CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: CNN has confirmed that a Russian passenger plane has been hijacked, hijacked upon takeoff leaving Istanbul's airport in Turkey en route to a scheduled flight to Moscow. But it appears to be en route to Cairo.

And according to the Turkish news agency Anatolia, there are 162 passengers onboard. The two hijackers are two men who took over the plane about 30 minutes after takeoff.

And as soon as we have more on this breaking news story we will bring it to you.

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