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As a pilot in Ethiopia I'd have to imagine that is one of the best jobs attainable in that country. Furthermore, if he wanted to travel to Europe and seek asylum he could have done that at any point with his job as a pilot.

The reality is he could have easily landed his plane in Rome as originally planned, gotten off and taken a car/plane/train to Switzerland and sought his asylum.

This was about having his 15 seconds of fame. He is obviously mentally ill and should have been removed from the cockpit long ago.

Just glad he didn't follow through on his threats to crash the plane.

So OP, I was following the story very close as it unfolded before I went to bed (America)... I have one tidbit of info I wanted to share and one question.

First, the news and aviation authorities were originally tipped off when the hijacker turned the squawk code 7500 which is code for hyjacking. Squawk is a code sent to the tower and is used to identify flights on the radar for atc. Seems weird he basically outed himself as a hijacker.

Secondly, as I watched the plane track as you endlessly circled around Geneva I heard on liveatc that the right engine had flamed out and you landed on one engine due to extreme low fuel. Is this true?

You mentioned you sat on the right wing... Did you see a flameout? Hear it? (Sounds like a car revving then goes out)

Thanks OP

No of course they can't handle reality.