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Monday, 14 February, 2000, 15:29 GMT
Special report: Hijack at Stansted
An Afghan airliner, carrying more than 150 passengers, was hijacked during an internal flight on 6 February and flown to Stansted Airport, near London. After four days of tense negotiations, all the hostages were finally released. At least 60 claimed political asylum in the UK.
Hijackers and hostages
The case of the Stansted hostages, freed after a five-day ordeal at the hands of gunmen, has provoked a wave of outrage in some UK newspapers. BBC News Online looks at the obstacles facing an asylum seeker.
Piracy in the air
The terror of the hijack ordeal Hostages on board the Afghan plane at Stansted airport are likely to have experienced a mixture of terror and exhaustion, a survivor of a previous hijack has told the BBC.
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