Political Asylum

political asylum: The co-pilot had locked his captain from the cockpit, commandeered the plane, and headed for Geneva, where he used a rope to lower himself out of a window, then asked for political asylum, according to Huffington Post. One passenger said the hijacker threatened to crash the plane if the pilot didn't stop pounding on the locked door. Another said he was terrified "for hours" Monday as the plane careened across the sky and It seemed like a routine overnight flight until the Ethiopian Airlines jetliner went into a dive and oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling. Only then did the terrified passengers bound for Italy from Addis Ababa realize something was terribly wrong. Authorities say a prison cell is more likely. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.