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Urgent: South African airline Airlink denies plane hijacking report

Xinhua, July 11, 2016 Adjust font size:

SA Airlink has denied that one of its planes was hijacked en route from Cape Town to Wonderboom airport on Monday morning.

All the 72 passengers and four crew members aboard SA8678 were safe, SA Airlink said.

Reports emerged early on Monday afternoon about an SA Airlink flight being hijacked. Endit