Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Flight 013

They claimed to the passengers that they were recently escaped recidivist criminals and threatened that they would depressurize the plane if an attempt were made to disarm them or impede the takeover.A passenger was sent to the cockpit to communicate their demands to the pilot, who in turn relayed them to local authorities and received orders to simulate compliance while actually maintaining a course for Varna.The hijackers asked for a translator to negotiate their surrender, until one of them noticed that the disguised police officer was wearing a Bulgarian-made leather jacket, which led them to panic and threaten to start executing hostages.Two more commandos entered the plane through the passenger hatch, kicked in the bathroom door and shot Ivanov as he attempted to kill his hostage.The flight attendant, having sustained a wound in her neck and bleeding heavily, was quickly transported to a nearby hospital and made a full recovery.
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