MEXICO CITY (AP) - Hijackers are holding a flight from Cancun to Mexico City. Mexico Communications Secretary Juan Molinar says the plane is sitting
on the runway at the Mexico City international airport.
Mexican news media report the hijackers are three Bolivian citizens who are demanding to talk with Mexican President Felipe Calderon.
Mexican network TV Azteca reported that the flight Wednesday was carrying 104 passengers.
[Edited on 9-9-2009 by Woooosh]Bajahowodd - 9-9-2009 at 12:53 PM
Most recent update I found is that perhaps one of the hijackers is Bolivian. They took control of the plane after takeoff from Cancun, although
reportedly never entered the c-ckpit. They claim to have explosives and will blow up the plane if they are not able to speak with Calderon. last
reports have the passengers being released. Bolivia, along with Columbia and Peru and major sources of illicit drugs and have been targeted by Mexico
in its ongoing war.BMG - 9-9-2009 at 12:56 PM
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Originally posted by Woooosh
And what idiots hijack a plane AFTER it gets to its destination?
They had to wait until the 'Fasten Seat Belt' lights turned off.BajaGringo - 9-9-2009 at 01:10 PM
Everyone is off the plane and the hijackers are in custody...Bajahowodd - 9-9-2009 at 01:23 PM
It's all about diffferent dialects. One of the Bolivians was overheard telling his friend that "this vacation is da' bomb."surfer jim - 9-9-2009 at 03:47 PM
Perhaps they were upset after buying some fake watches while walking on the beach.....DENNIS - 9-9-2009 at 03:52 PM
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Perhaps they were upset after buying some fake watches while walking on the beach.....
It said something about Bolivia. Isn't that a good brand of wrist watch? It used to be.Bajahowodd - 9-9-2009 at 03:54 PM
Turns out that religion was behind this. Some Bolivian nutjob decided that today's date, 9/9/09 was just an upside down 666 which we all know from so
many horror movies, is the sign of the devil. So, he decided to convince some of his followers to hijack the plane. Aaah. Religion.Bajahowodd - 9-9-2009 at 03:59 PM
Good catch, Dennis. Bulova. They were actually very popular until the asian marketplace wasable to overwhelm Western culture.BMG - 9-9-2009 at 03:59 PM
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Originally posted by Bajahowodd
Turns out that religion was behind this. Some Bolivian nutjob decided that today's date, 9/9/09 was just an upside down 666 which we all know from so
many horror movies, is the sign of the devil. So, he decided to convince some of his followers to hijack the plane. Aaah. Religion.
666 - was it that goat guy?Bajahowodd - 9-9-2009 at 04:00 PM
mtgoat???DENNIS - 9-9-2009 at 04:33 PM
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Originally posted by Bajahowodd
Bulova.
Nope. Never been there. Nice place, I hear.
[Edited on 9-9-2009 by DENNIS]Bajahowodd - 9-9-2009 at 05:10 PM
I believe you are thinking about Bulleeveia.
Highjack Hijinks
MrBillM - 9-9-2009 at 05:42 PM
Watching the Federales bring people off the Plane, the TV commentator said "I don't think those are the Highjackers. Those look like regular
passengers". He followed that up by saying "Of course, our sources tell us that the Highjackers would probably be dressed that way, too".
No Kidding ? They weren't wearing their Union Highjack outfits ?DENNIS - 9-9-2009 at 05:47 PM
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Originally posted by Bajahowodd
I believe you are thinking about Bulleeveia.
"Bellevue".....the voices keep saying, "Bellevue." What do they mean?JESSE - 9-9-2009 at 05:56 PM
Its clear by watching the video, that Mexican federal Police need a "little" training. They stormed the plane like La Paz cops busting some drunks on
a bus.elizabeth - 9-9-2009 at 06:20 PM
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Originally posted by Bajahowodd
Turns out that religion was behind this. Some Bolivian nutjob decided that today's date, 9/9/09 was just an upside down 666 which we all know from so
many horror movies, is the sign of the devil. So, he decided to convince some of his followers to hijack the plane. Aaah. Religion.
Latest I read was it was only the one guy, and he was actually the only one to be arrested...the other three he referred to were the father, son, and
the holy ghost!BMG - 9-9-2009 at 06:35 PM
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Originally posted by JESSE
They stormed the plane like La Paz cops busting some drunks on a bus.
Who usually wins that one?
Onward Christian Soldiers
CaboRon - 9-11-2009 at 07:01 AM
Mexico hijacker is singing, gunslinging evangelical
Thursday, September 10, 2009; 2:25 PM
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A man who hijacked a Mexican plane is a singing evangelical minister, marksman and martial arts whiz who friends nicknamed
"Crazy" as he turned to religion to escape a life of drug addiction and petty thieving.
Bolivian-born Jose Mar Flores, 44, set off a national security alert on Wednesday when he hijacked a plane flying from Cancun to Mexico City. He
wielded a Bible and fruit juice cans filled with earth and bound with silver tape and wires to look like bombs.
The AeroMexico plane landed safely and all on board escaped unhurt after a senior crew member reasoned with Flores, who read from his Bible, wept,
prayed and said he needed to warn Mexican President Felipe Calderon of an impending earthquake.
"I love this nation, I love God's people. I want us to pray because tremendous things are ahead," Flores told reporters after his arrest. "There is
only one way to avoid it -- by uniting, by crying out wherever we are, whoever we are, whatever our religion, by begging God for this not to happen."
Security Minister Genaro Garcia Luna said Flores told police he picked the attack for September 9, 2009 because the date 9-9-9 is the inverse of
6-6-6, a number associated with the devil, and that the Holy Spirit accompanied him on his mission. He has yet to be charged.
Worshippers at Flores's evangelical church near the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca said he was gifted at healing the sick, and neighbors described
him as quiet and respectful.
But Internet video footage shows a bizarre character with an obsession for cowboy-style gun tricks and martial arts. Friends nicknamed him "Crazy
Flores", the daily Reforma said.
In one video clip, Flores shows off pistol-spinning skills, does some tricks with nunchucks -- fighting sticks joined by a chain -- then tosses a coin
in the air and shoots it, dramatically falling down afterward and rolling on the ground.
He then shoots a hole through his wallet and inspects the damaged banknotes inside.
CHRISTIAN SINGER
Flores is then shown under a plastic sheet in a boat in a deep canyon in southern Mexico begging God to stop a raging storm. When the weather clears,
he tosses his gun into the river and throws his arms in the air as friends applaud.
"I was the meanest shot in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. But Christ showed himself to be all-powerful," Flores tells worshippers in a sermon about the incident
that was also filmed.
"I promised Jehovah that never again in my life would I pick up a gun," he says, addressing a crowded arena from a stage filled with plants and conga
drums.
Flores's wife Elizabeth Melgar apologized for the hijack of the plane, which had 104 passengers aboard, and said he only wanted to get the media's
attention about a dangerous earthquake he believed would soon hit.
"He just wanted to be listened to," she told reporters. "Only time will tell if it was truly God who sent him."
Flores arrived in Mexico a decade ago from Bolivia, addicted to cocaine and having served jail time, and began busking in Mexico City's seedy Plaza
Garibaldi square, Reforma reported.
He also resorted to begging and thieving until he was befriended by a man who took him to his evangelical church and Flores became a preacher who
tried to help drug addicts.
Under the stage name "Josmar" he recorded compact discs, decorated with his beaming photograph, of Christian songs sung in his vibrato-heavy voice
accompanied by electronic organ.
Thank GOD
MrBillM - 9-11-2009 at 09:54 AM
That the Bolivian Nutcase was a Christian.
If He'd been a Moslem Nutcase I know that's Redundant), there WOULD have been explosives and Dead-Bodies.
