BEIJING A Chinese hijacker was killed on Wednesday as security guards stormed a plane after it landed at an airport in northern China, a security official said. The Xinhua Airlines Boeing 737 took off at 7:37 a.
m. from Baotou in China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region en route to Beijing, but landed at Jinan Airport in Shandong Province at 9:36 a.m., the official Xinhua news agency said. Security guards in Jinan stormed the plane as soon as it landed, Jinan Airport security office said. The hijacker, a man in his 20s, used a fake gun and a long Mongolian-style knife to hijack the plane. (DPA)