Brazilian Jet Hijacked, 2 Killed
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RIO DE JANEIRO — A Brazilian jetliner with more than 98 people aboard was hijacked today by a man who killed the co-pilot and at least one passenger, officials said.
A spokeswoman for the VASP airline said Flight 375 was on its daily run from the Amazon jungle city of Porto Velho to Rio de Janeiro on the southeast Atlantic coast when it was hijacked. Federal police in Brasilia, the capital, said the hijacker was a man who apparently was mentally disturbed. They said the hijacker ordered the plane flown to Brasilia, but bad weather forced the pilot to land in Goiania, 150 miles away, where police surrounded the plane and an Air Force official was negotiating with the hijacker.
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