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PRIME MINISTER TO SPEAK ON AIR HIJACKING
May 5, 2011
PRIME MINISTER TO SPEAK ON AIR HIJACKING
May 5, 2011
ASHTONFIELD––As the chaos continues to unravel aboard Brettish Airways Flight 239, Prime Minister James C. Dahlgren announced a press conference at the Aquitaine Palace to take place at 7 o'clock this morning. The press conference will take place in the press room at Parliament House.
Details about the hijacking are slow to come. However, from what BBS News reporters have come to understand, the flight was bound from Melbourne to Villsen, in Sereniérre. According to a Brettish Airways spokesperson at Carlton-Melbourne International Airport, the airliner is a Bowen 747-400 carrying 243 passengers, most of whom are Sereniérrese.
A timeline of events regarding the first two-and-a-half hours of the flight has been drawn up by BBS News:
7:30 P.M. - Brettish Airways Flight 1564, Tail Number B-709BA, arrives at Carlton-Melbourne Intl. Airport from Winchester, Anglyn. It disembarks its passengers and changes its call sign to Brettish Airways Flight 239.
7:45 P.M. - Boarding Agent Stephanie Brooks is informed that due to a scheduling issue, the flight crew for BA239 has been changed. The new flight crew arrives thirty-five minutes later.
8:00 P.M. - Captain James Taylor and First Officer Jean-Paul Marien arrive to take command of BA239. They are relieving the flight crew from the previous flight.
8:15 P.M. - Boarding begins for BA239.
8:45 P.M. - BA239 takes off from runway 9L.
9:15 P.M. - Flight attendants begin complimentary evening tea service aboard BA239. The airliner is now flying at 11,000 metres above the Bay of Brettaine.
9:30 P.M. - BA239 makes contact with Geneva ATC as they leave Essex airspace.
9:33 P.M. - Last transmission from Capt. Taylor or First Officer Marien
9:40 P.M. - Geneva Air Control attempts to contact BA239. There is no reply.
9:44 P.M. - Geneva ATC requests visual from BA1792, en route to Westminster. BA1792 reports seeing a "military aircraft" in the distance and nothing else.
9:45 P.M. - Emergency Switchboard in Goshen, Kent, receives a telephone call from a passenger aboard BA239. The passenger reports the flight attendants have tranquilized the passengers.
9:47 P.M. - Emergency Switchboard operator reports illegible whispering from the passenger. Two minutes later, a scuffle is heard and the call is lost.
10:40 P.M. - Press is informed about the hijacking. News breaks on BBS Nine News and BBS Seven News.
11:00 P.M. - Remus ATC reports inappropriate transmission from BA239 demanding clearance for landing.
11:05 P.M. - On special orders, Remus ATC gives BA239 clearance to land.
11:07 P.M. - BA239 lands in Remus.