Flight Engineer Stops Hijacker

In 1987, a lone attacker armed with dynamite hijacked Air New Zealand Flight 24 while it was on the tarmac in Fiji. After six tense hours, the captain offered the hijacker a whiskey and sent the flight engineer to fetch it. The ordeal ended when the flight engineer returned with the bottle and knocked out the hijacker. The attacker later received a suspended sentence and went on to become a member of Fiji's House of Representatives.

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