Brawl forces evacuation of plane at Cairo airport as PILOT and cabin crew member involved in violent fist fight

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <ul class="article-summary news mol-bullets-with-font" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; min-height: 1px; padding: 5px 0px 5px 15px;"> <li class="" style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 15px 2px 2px;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Passenger plane bound for Saudi Arabia was grounded for six hours</strong></li> <li class="" style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 15px 2px 2px;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">More than 150 passengers were removed from the plane without injury</strong></li> <li class="" style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 15px 2px 2px;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The pilot suffered an eye injury and was transported to hospital</strong></li> <li></li> </ul> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A passenger plane was evacuated and grounded for six hours after its pilot and a cabin crew member brawled just before the aircraft was scheduled to take off.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Saudi Arabian Airlines flight was preparing to depart Cairo’s international airport for Medina, Saudi Arabia when an argument between the captain and steward turned violent.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">More than 150 passengers were removed from the plane without injury and taken to a transit hall while officials separated the combatants. </span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Brawl: A Saudi Arabian Airlines pilot and steward got into a fight aboard a plane at Cairo International Airport" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="0" height="423" id="i-68dc0deb4d09e0f0" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/18/1408350484643_wps_1_DYH9CY_saudi_arabian_airl.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); 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padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Brawl: A Saudi Arabian Airlines pilot and steward got into a fight aboard a plane at Cairo International Airport</span></div> </div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Once security personnel broke up the fist fight, the steward was treated at the airport for hand injuries.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The pilot suffered an eye injury and was transported to hospital, Stuff.co.nz reported. </span></div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="relatedItemsTopBorder" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /><br />Read more: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2727702/Brawl-forces-evacuation-plane-Cairo-airport-PILOT-cabin-crew-member-involved-violent-fist-fight.html#ixzz3AnHA13qA" style="cursor: pointer; 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padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The 153 passengers were put back on the plane, which departed about six hours behind schedule.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It is not known what triggered the fight between the pilot and steward. </span></div> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Airport bust-up: The pilot suffered an eye injury, while the steward was treated for a hand injury" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="1" height="423" id="i-bb3a443ac482b29e" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/18/1408350488639_wps_2_B5E4FA_Cairo_Internationa.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); 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padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Airport bust-up: The pilot suffered an eye injury, while the steward was treated for a hand injury</span></div> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div>

Brawl forces evacuation of plane at Cairo airport as PILOT and cabin crew member involved in violent fist fight

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vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">An Iraqi military helicopter crashed during an aid flight on Tuesday night, swamped by desperate refugees trying to clamber aboard on Mount Sinjar.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The MI-17 helicopter was delivering aid to Yazidis when it crashed, killing its pilot and injuring several others on board. At least three Western journalists were onboard,<a href="http://lightbox.time.com/2014/08/12/helicopter-crash-iraq-moises-saman/#1" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">including TIME photographer Moises Saman</a>, who said he was "pinned down by the weight of some of the passengers for a while but suffered just a minor cut on his head".</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Photographer Adam Ferguson, and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/12/nyt-reporter-injured-iraq-alissa-rubin_n_5671924.html" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">New York Times’ Paris bureau chief Alissa J Rubin</a> also survived the crash. “If we had been another 50 meters higher we’d all be dead,” <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/13/world/middleeast/times-journalist-iraq.html?_r=0" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">Ferguson told the Times</a>. Rubin has concussion, at least one broken wrist and possibly some broken ribs.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/12/iraq-helicopter-crash-yazidis_n_5671825.html" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">Kurdish news agency Rudaw said Vian Dakhil, a Yazidi member of the Iraqi parliament </a>who last week made an emotional plea for her embattled community, was on board and wounded in the crash.</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Fuad Hussein, the chief of staff for the Kurdish president, said overloading had not been the problem, but the crash had been caused by pilot error.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Tuesday, Jonathan Rugman, a foreign affairs correspondent for Channel 4 News, helped to drag dozens of the refugees on board a separate Iraqi helicopter, and said it was overwhelmed by the number of people desperate to flee.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"You can be a bystander, you can say, 'I am telling the world what is going on and that is my job'. Or you can be so overwhelmed by the circumstances that you feel you have to help," <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/08/12/channel-4-news-iraqi-yezidi-helicopter_n_5671180.html?utm_hp_ref=uk" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">Rugman told The Huffington Post UK</a>, saying it had been one of the most "particularly intense" situations he had been in, during 20 years as a reporter.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"If you are on a helicopter, in a confined space that can only take 25 refugees, you are taking up one of those spaces," he added.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Around a quarter of a million Iraqis from religious minorities have already fled their homes in the face of "convert or die" ultimatums from the advancing militants, with women executed or taken as slaves and teenagers sexually assaulted, a United Nations report concluded.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The UN's special rapporteur on minority issues, Rita Izsak, urged: "All possible measures must be taken urgently to avoid a mass atrocity and potential genocide within days or hours - civilians need to be protected on the ground and escorted out of situations of extreme peril."</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The UN refugee agency said up to 35,000 people had managed to reach Iraqi Kurdistan's Dohuk region after escaping from Mount Sinjar.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"The new arrivals are exhausted, dehydrated and many have suffered sun or heat stroke, with the daily temperatures reaching 40 to 45 degrees Celsius," UN High Commissioner for Refugees spokesman Adrian Edwards.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A further 10,000 to 15,000 had arrived in Syria, but as many as 30,000 remained on the mountain.</span></div> </div>

Iraqi Helicopter Crashes On Mount Sinjar As Desperate Refugees Swamp Chopper

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Meet Nigeria's youngest pilot - he's only 19!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"> <img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSUWuQOiovl11_aTmm2eahftFXmqR5oUH_GKcccWPnIUPqJFNSc2tTZAwu0KC67ywpmACTuVn9RATqSxjp2FquCGRB52LREAvLabT3jOp0AbidjHQd0u490PQzhIYPsjrOS51YXBmwa9o/s1600/b.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" width="295" /><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWSa5YhYc-gFLM0jwNzYI0i0RV_MFxo62tzTK-n4ymxojC2Zd-sF27DznZc-b4PvW2e5wEIiddhn26mCd2ldixVKIXe9t8P7HUKb0_C6b1E3VokvJkRsX4XkY1JKFJ1rBP_wxX0ef3X_4/s1600/aa.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" width="273" /></h3> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3571623098222429848" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">According to the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, Daniel Adeyileka (pictured above) is the youngest pilot in Nigeria.<br /><br />He was born in 1995 in Newcastle, England and had his primary and secondary education in Scotland then came back to Nigeria to do his A-levels. At 17, he proceeded to Delta Flight school in Texas, USA, where he obtained his Private Pilot License (PPL) and his International General Certificate of Secondary Education. He is currently a First Officer.<br /><br /><i>#Beinspired</i>. You're never too young to pursue your dreams. Read more about Daniel after the cut...<br /><br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6089869001362915509" name="more"></a></span><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3ic9FuZOAl8Y6ZWnsqpczCgNj4mNEO98ZDCnpo3yBJmgoUm1mnvoyjDjHyJ9Qa5-dm4-_0N2BxJK9pcyAnCJBF_fqiqjyNDyeOJlGCwSDUhV-ze2zUiNuuIR0SiJ5SEde7Nfy6qzcabs/s1600/a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3ic9FuZOAl8Y6ZWnsqpczCgNj4mNEO98ZDCnpo3yBJmgoUm1mnvoyjDjHyJ9Qa5-dm4-_0N2BxJK9pcyAnCJBF_fqiqjyNDyeOJlGCwSDUhV-ze2zUiNuuIR0SiJ5SEde7Nfy6qzcabs/s1600/a.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /><strong>Kindly do a little bit of introduction?</strong><br /><span style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; height: 0px; padding: 8px; width: 0px;"><img alt="Daniel Adeyileka" rel="1621" src="http://ncaa.gov.ng/media/1100/img_4586.jpg?width=0&height=0" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; height: 0px; padding: 8px; width: 0px;" /></span>My name is Daniel Adeyelika; I was born on the 6th of February 1995 in Newcastle, England. I have spent most of my life in the United Kingdom, Indonesia, Nairn, Scotland and other countries abroad. I had my elementary education in Rose Bank Primary School, Nairn, Scotland, from there I moved to Grantown Grammar School also in Scotland where I completed my secondary school. In 2008, I came back to Nigeria and enrolled into Avicenna International School, Ikeja, GRA. I finished in 2009. I equally obtained my A-Levels in Greenville School, GRA. It was right after my A-Levels that I went straight to flying school in America<br /><br /><strong>Where did you train?</strong><br />I did my flight training in Texas, Dallas with Delta Flight School for nine (9) months. I knew I went there for a reason and not to play, I needed all the concentration, I go to school from Monday to Sunday. My Private Pilot License (PPL) was for one and a half month and my International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) was for three years.<br /><br /><strong>During your training, were you teased for being the</strong> <strong>youngest in your class?</strong><br />I was never teased but I was the youngest in my class and got along with everybody but there was a time I could not write certain exams due to my age, there were restrictions. I was asked to wait until I turned 18 years before I can do my commercial, so I was just reading all through those periods.<br /><br /><strong>What were your challenges during training?</strong><br />The challenge basically was when I was sent to Amsterdam for my Type Rating, it was really the toughest period I cant lie to you because it was not an easy task. I actually thought I was going to fail because I was the weakest in the class at the beginning but I came top of the class at the end. I kept telling my self “I can do it.” God really saw me through. The exercise lasted for one month. The challenge basically was when I was sent to Amsterdam for my Type Rating, it was really the toughest period I cant lie to you because it was not an easy task. I actually thought I was going to fail because I was the weakest in the class at the beginning but I came top of the class at the end. I kept telling my self “I can do it.” God really saw me through. The exercise lasted for one month.<br /><br /><strong>What is your present position?</strong><br />In the cockpit I am a first officer but salary level is second officer but it doesn’t really matter.<br /><br /><strong>On which aircraft are you type</strong> <strong>rated?</strong><br />A.Boeing 737 600 series to 900 series.</span></div> </div>

Meet Nigeria's youngest pilot - he's only 19!

According to the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, Daniel Adeyileka (pictured above) is the youngest pilot in Nigeria. He was bor...

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