Ethiopias Capital and Ethiopian Airlines

Ethiopian Airlines: The Boeing 767-300 plane with 202 passengers and crew had taken off from Addis Ababa, Ethiopias capital, and landed in Geneva at about 6 a.m. local time. Officials said no one on the flight was injured and the hijacker was taken into custody after surrendering to police, according to The Star. The plane first sent a distress message while flying over Sudan's airspace on its way to Rome, Ethiopia's communications minister said and An Ethiopian Airlines co-pilot locked his colleague out of the cockpit, hijacked a Rome-bound plane and landed here on Monday, all in an attempt to seek asylum in Switzerland, officials said. It wasn't immediately clear why the co-pilot, an Ethiopian man born in 1983 whose name wasn't released, wanted asylum. However, Ethiopian Airlines is owned by Ethiopia's government, which has faced persistent criticism over its rights record and alleged intolerance of political dissent. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.