YOU ARE HERE: LAT HomeCollectionsPlane  Passengers, Crew in
Soviet Hijacking All Safe  December 26, 1985|Associated Press
PEKING — The passengers and crew of a hijacked Soviet airliner
that ran out of fuel and landed in China last week were returned
safely to the Soviet Union two days later, the Foreign Ministry
said Wednesday.  Ministry spokesman Ma Yuzhen, speaking at a
regularly scheduled news briefing, refused to comment on reports
that the four hijackers are under arrest in Peking. He also
would not say if the plane remained in China.  In Moscow on
Wednesday, the news agency Tass made the first official Soviet
comment about the incident.  Tass said the plane was on a local
flight when it "had to alter its course as a result of forcible
actions of an armed criminal on board and landed in the
northeastern part of the People's Republic of China."  Tass did
not say what happened to the hijacker, when the incident
occurred, what route the plane was flying or where the plane
landed in China.  'Neighborly Coop