Co-pilot hijacks plane and seeks asylum in Switzerland!
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- Опубликовано: 12 май 2024
- Ethiopian Airlines Flight 702 was a scheduled flight from Addis Ababa to Milan via Rome on 17 February 2014.The aircraft, an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767-300ER, was hijacked by the unarmed co-pilot, Hailemedhin Abera Tegegn, en route from Addis Ababa to Rome, and landed at Geneva. All 202 passengers and crew were unharmed. Hailemedhin was arrested by the Swiss authorities and convicted in absentia by an Ethiopian court.
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Just tell him what he wants to hear. It's not like the word of ATC is binding for asylums. Just lie.
I’m pretty sure they did
Agreed. It's not like he has a plan for anything else, and if he does, it's definitely not a good plan for the passengers on board.
Not only that, they could probably put him in prison for years for hijacking.
Head of Airport Security should have been in the ATC room for this. For passenger safety, he should have given the go-ahead to make the Co-Pilot hear what he wants to hear. Sir, we have your asylum application ready, the Immigration Minister will be on ground to receive you
@@OH-te6wr Absolutely ... and ... we have arranged a chauffeur driven vehicle to be at your disposal, plus we have reserved a suite for you in one of our finest five star hotels, all meals and wine included, with complimentary sauna and massage, plus we have arranged a new plane to take your passengers on to their destination. Look forward to seeing you soon. 🤣
Once the engine flamed out, you knew he didn't have much air time left.
You believe him? It was a negotiation tactic I bet
I bet the passengers would have liked a word with him if he hadn't gone out the window.
Hey it’s a free trip to Switzerland 🙃
I think ATC did a good job, by staying calm and step by step talking the passengers to safety.
just say "great news, they said yes, some nice police officers will be there to escort you to the asylum office" you dont have to tell criminals the truth when apprehending them....
Yeah right 😄
I'm sure the asylum has an office.
The Swiss Prosecutor dropped all charges against him. It was determined he suffered from extreme paranoia in the final minutes of flight. He was sent for mental health evaluation. The Ethiopian Govt eagerly awaits any chance to a Kashoggi to him, or grab him to serve his 19 yr sentence
He got away with it apparently
@@Flight_Followerhe didn’t get “away with” anything.
He was undergoing a severe mental breakdown.
@@Flight_FollowerRight. If you've had somebody in custody for a year and they still look psychotic, it's because they are psychotic. And he may have gotten away with less than you think - once he clears it may turn out that his reasons for requesting asylum were totally delusional. Now he can't go home even if he wants to and he's lost his career. He may have been able to hide his mental illness from the Ethiopian version of the FAA (don't know anything about their system), but there is no way that he will ever be cleared for duty by the Swiss or any other first world country. We can't really know from the information we have, but this might actually be an incredibly sad story.
@@gustavgans8278You're right. This has all the hallmarks of a 'first psychotic break.' Very sad.
Honestly i dont think a promise of asylum would matter as this was clearly a hostage situation….
Exactly
...which he will have 20 years to think about 😊
@@user-mp9rd4hg8bif they find him
looks like the controller is a professional hostage negotiator
yeah he is REALLY good, duh everyone is sleeping, He stayed cool in this unexpected situation.
Used to dealing with EasyJet
Tower: They are getting the asylum ready for you as we speak.
Yeah right so believable
Why did they change the aircraft's callsign from ETH702 to KK001?
As of 2024, the whereabouts of Hailemedhin are unknown. He is very likely still in Switzerland, since in Ethiopia he was sentenced to 20 years in prison in absentia back in 2015.
I saw him waiting for the bus last week yeah
(he's in a mental facility, his whereabouts are absolutely known)
@@IStMl Source
Why wouldn't he just get a regular plane ticket, fly to Europe and ask for asylum? Why endanger all those people?
You will know why when you see his photo.
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I don't think an Ethiopian citizen can easily get a visa for Europe. And without it, you can't fly.
But he could have just flown to Italy, left the plane during turnaround and claim his asylum without endangering anyone.
@@GA-in4mwwhat exactly do I see on his photo?
@@cdhagenConsidering the average IQ for Ethiopia is 63, the fact that he can fly a plane is a minor miracle.
@@gustavgans8278that's obviously a rhetorical question
to be fair its not the worst thing that he went to geneva, ethiopian do a fith freedrom route between manchester and geneva so its not like they haven't got people there to deal with the aircraft and passengers
On 9:09 it should say "Top Swiss"" (callsign for Easyjet Switzerland) instead of "stop six".
Notice how nobody ever seeks asylum in Ethiopia? 🤣🤣🤣
Right?
Right?
Apart from some Jamaican people invited by Haile Selassie the descendant of King Salomon back in history, I believe... 🇵🇱🇯🇲
Citation needed.
Is that suprising to you?
Literally the Swiss air force was closed when this incident occurred, and they can only do war stuff during office hours.
Not a joke.
Didnt France have to send up jets to intercept them?
That's not the case anymore. This incident accelerated the plan to have 24/24 coverage.
@@IStMl accelerated??? no exposed quite how absolutely F'd they were if someone decided to attack outside of office hours?
@@MartinBarker how are those 2 things mutually exclusive
Does running out of fuel happen like this? One engine flames out and the other is still running for minutes?
Yes, that is not strange at all, because usually the left engine is fed from the left wing tank and the right engine from the right wing tank. There are pumps to rebalance fuel if necessary, but usually if you just keep flying, you will run out of fuel on one side first and then a short time later on the other side.
not me wondering how the airport looks like a sniper
booooom heddshooot!😂
Couldn't he just land the plane as scheduled and seek asylum on the ground?
So, he's like we are going to crash due to lack of fuel, unless asylum? How stupid, controller tell him yes we have contact with the authorities, they say land. Then put this guy in a rubber room. Jeopardize people.
Now I want to learn more about the co-pilot / hijacker and the conditions of why he wanted asylum and whatever kind of political stuff they were escaping.
Mostly because the co-pilot was very respectful and professional to ATC, despite unfortunately holding a plane hostage but landed because clearly he's out of time and surrendered.
It seems like a movie plot starring Liam Neeson or something.
Yeah right..the ending of the movie will be disappointing tho
He was not extradited to Ethiopia.
A panel of experts “unanimously decided that [Hailemedhin] was in a state of complete paranoia”
He was ordered to undergo mental health treatment.
It still sounds like a movie, but not one with Liam Neeson. Maybe something more like Fight Club. Not a disappointment to me, but not everyone likes the same movies.
How long ago was this?
2014
@@The_Dudester means he got another 10 years left to sit in prison for that stunt
"Not capable of rational thought"? He was rational enough to continue to fly an airliner full of people and to blackmail the Swiss authorities, he should be languishing in a jail somewhere for a very lengthy term!
Well if he goes back to Ethiopia then he will. They sentenced him to 20 years without him even being there. As for whether he was capable of rational thought, I think there is general agreement in the comments that he could have made his asylum request in a much more effective way, so there was definitely something wrong with the way he was thinking. Delusions aren't always easy to diagnose. It's not that crazy people don't make plans, they just make crazy plans.
Because the swiss people are STILL lenient in this. I have a case of my friend's mom being stabbed by a dumb asian immigrant and he actually got help and compensated by the government, his own country can't even change their president's underwear but Idk why swiss people are like this.
Lands a 767 paranoid and incapable of rational thinking.
Yeah ironic 😌
@Flight_Follower
Not really. Being psychotic in most cases may not impair the ability to form and execute plans. If he was paranoid, his plans would have been a paranoid belief that he was in danger and needed to get away or escape. The paranoia affected his rational thinking about his safety but not how to get away from perceived danger. I see this all the time in my work in psychiatry. I have seen people from the US seeking asylum in the UK claiming that the cia or fbi are after them or some need to asylum for weird irrational reasons. Unfortunately, the US is not seen as an unsafe country, so they often end up being sent to A&E for a psychiatric evaluation
@@Flight_Followerwhats Ironic about that? Sad to see a promising yt chanal Fall into racist talkingpoints
No respect for Ethopiuans who overthrow their King.
That would have ended his aviation career.
You think? 😂
"I have a number for you to copy"
Deport.
As a fellow aviator, I wish he has what he wanted and be granted asylum. Political “crime” in third world countries should not deny the rights the pursue freedom and happiness
as I'm living in egypt , I can confirm that being accused of criminal actions can be taken easy by the government , but facing some political accusations ( not even a sentence ) can destroy your whole life here
obviously you're not a Swiss taxpayer. We have a TON of Ethiopian and Somalian migrants now
Day by Day, seeing new Advancements in these ATC talks!🙄😁🥵😎
This is 10 yrs old
@@momsterzz yeah, but still bro. Starting from this to proposing your gf from the control tower to passing some comments to your ex on a flight from atc. There are advancements!
the things some men do for some Alpha Sierra Sierra
you win the comments section
@@Not.Your.Business lol
No FA took the capt seat? Wtf.
An over-riding for the Lockable cockpit door could placed in the custody of a random member of the cabin crew before a flight.
No, that's 2 dangerous. Each crew member (flight and cabin) should be given a personal override code but it would take say 3 personal codes to execute the override, and the override could still be denied from the inside of the cockpit with 2 pilot's personal codes.
@@adb012too convoluted and messy, systems like that don't survive everyday practice of people being lazy. They are cabin crew, not secret agents
@@nicfab1 ... Really? Having a PIN for each crew member is too messy?
@@adb012 yes. Because that means having all of them on constant training so they don't forget the pin and can judge when to use it. And then you run the risk of them just writing them down or borrowing their coworkers because the training is annoying. It's a massive overhead only to then let the pilots veto it anyway, and gives an attack vector to intrusion that wasn't there. Not to mention system failures
@@nicfab1 ... Ok, then I suppose you are also against both the current method and the method suggested by the OP.
Did he get to stay in Switzerland or did the Swiss extradite him to Ethiopia to face a 20 year prison sentence? If he was able to stay in Switzerland I would say the ploy worked.
The ploy actually worked…he got away with it
@@Flight_Follower sure because a lifelong medical treatment in closed clinics is really something one should envy him for 🙄
@@gustavgans8278 better than living in a mud hut in Ethiopia.
@@robertjones8598 your ignorance must be bliss.
@@gustavgans8278 well, truth is I’ve only been to Switzerland so can only imagine what Ethiopian prisons and mental facilities are like. The guy managed to fly the airliner and communicate effectively. This hijack approach got him a stay he wouldn’t have had he just taken a commercial flight and requested asylum. He could be crazy like a fox.
Now here this. What a nonsense this Ethiopian is making. He does fly a plane this got a proper training and so a job.
How did pay for that. Why would you escape this way as he could do that while walking out of the gate, now he got his time eating Swiss chees and bread
It was later determined that the man was in a state of mental illness, causing this behaviour.
@@JohanBosClips you believe that? How did he become a pilot, how handled his medical. Stating demands and fly a jet like that like pro.. he is wiser than a nut case. Maybe asparagus but those are not really unstable.
@@MonkPetite No, probably not Asperger (I suppose that's what you mean by 'asparagus'?) As you said, those are not unstable. There are actually a lot of pilots in the autism spectrum, for flying it's rather an advantage than a handycap.
Behaviour like what this pilot did is normally related to depression, not to autism. And this is a tricky one, mainly because of the tension between the laws that protect the privacy of the pilot and the public interest of not having a depressed pilot in the cockpit. Early detection is often hindered by such privacy laws, for which there is not yet a good solution unfortunately.
@@JohanBosClips yes the asperge you can’t eat ! 🥹 I think me spell checker mad it “asparagus..” what ever that is.
I’m worked in aviation a long time. Im still involved in aviation training.
As an inspector I never seen a guy with and form of autism nor Asperger. Actually in Europa we filter them out as not fit for flight.
I hope the usa and other countries does the same.
@@MonkPetite I am a pilot in the Netherlands and I don't see how people with high functioning autism spectrum (like asperger and PDD-NOS combined with high IQ) would be filtered out. I even know flight instructors who are specialized in educating those people. It's not a thing that would leave you e.g. without a medical.
Those people are often above average pilots, e.g. because they are very good in strictly following procedures. In an emergency they still follow the checklists, without being influenced significantly by emotions. Especially when I would be a passenger in a plane that encounters an emergency, I would hope that there is a pilot with autism in control. Not classic autisme of course, but something like asperger.
The crazy idiot played with the lives of all the passengers. He should spend a long time in jail.
Terrorism is exactly what this was. So sad.
Agreed
It was the co-pilot talking all the time. Who was flying and what happened with the captain? Was he held hostage during the flight?
Captain got up to take a pee and then the C-Pilot locked the cockpit door.
What do you mean, who was flying? The first officer was flying, the same one on the radio.
Its seems always to be the Ethiopians. Too many stories about them causing trouble.
Still they are the emirates of africa
They have a lot of planes flying around in a poor area.
And ladies and gents looks like Boeing has learned nothing from the Germanwings inccident.... Airbus did and had to update every aircraft and EASA placed rules that airlines must comply with since the incident, yet boeing hasnt funny isnt it
This happened over a year before the Germanwings incident
@@SmokeyBCN so? Most airlines since that incident took action at least most European countries did
Last I heard he was granted citizenship and now flies for Swiss Air.... But then I heard that the UK government allowed him access to the UK and he's now Chief Pilot for British Airways....
What
One of the most frustating exchanges between a pilot and ATC ive ever heard. That controller should be fired. I cannot fathom why he wouldnt just lie to get that plane and passengers on the ground, espeically when he was down below 30 mins of fuel. Absolutely ridiculous.
in some countries, not sure about swiss regulations, it is against regulations for ATC to lie about these types of things
@@bsci01 I'm pretty sure it's against regulations to let a 767 run out of fuel at the hands of a hijacker too.
Maybe hostage negotiation techniques ; better result when leaving the FO in a dilemna and being both respectful and on equal footing (when the controller says he cannot decide himself and can only wait for a response). Seemingly good excuses (people are sleeping) are most efficient, the simplest they are. Imagine if he had said something more specific, leaving the door open for questionning and arguing, while the fuel was running out. The ATC controller was at his best, IMO.
@@ZeCatableAgree.
He's not a negociator, he shouldn't even be involved in the negociation process, his only job is to assist the hijacker to get the plane safely on the ground
Is Ethiopia as bad as Eritrea?
Reading the comments I suspect they are from some North American counties! Frightful to see ignorance in action!
@gillesblanchard1699 I believe the comments are from Europeans. Very frightful to see ignorance in action!
and convicted in ethiopia... hahahahahahahahahaha have fun in that prison system!!!!! hahahahahahahahaha
🙃
The captain has now a sorrow free life kindly sponsored by us taxpayers 🤬
Like you can just fly into a foreign country and ask for asylum. Maybe they can ask for a cheese plate and a glass of wine while they are at it. Acting like a foreign country is some sort of service that bends over for your wishes.
Of course you can fly into a foreign country and ask for asylum.
Technically, that's only legal if you fall under the UN definition of refugee, unless the country in question has other rules. But you're obviously not required to prove that before entering said country.