Russian sentenced in Prague over plane emergency landing

April 13, 2015 21:26

A Prague court has handed a 30 month prison sentence to a Russian who forced a passenger plane to make an emergency landing by claiming he was carrying a bomb.

Yevgeny Dagayev, who has changed his surname to Rotshtein, tried to break into the cockpit of the Aeroflot Airbus A320 from Moscow to Geneva in the 2006 incident.

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