Hijacking ends in surrender

Paris - An Italian-speaking man who hijacked an Air France A-320 Airbus with 75 passengers aboard on a domestic flight yesterday…

Paris - An Italian-speaking man who hijacked an Air France A-320 Airbus with 75 passengers aboard on a domestic flight yesterday surrendered to police in the early evening at Charles de Gaulle airport. No one was hurt.

The hijacker had threatened to detonate a bomb on the plane.

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