Man Attempts To Hijack Mexican Flight, Divert It To US

Los Angeles’s ABC affiliate reports:

A passenger attempted to hijack a domestic Mexican flight Sunday morning and forcibly divert it to the United States, according to the airline Volaris.

The suspect, identified by Mexican authorities only as a 31-year-old Mexican national named Mario, assaulted a flight attendant and tried to enter the cockpit to divert the flight to the United States, according to the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection.

The flight was routed from El Bajio airport in Leon and was headed to Tijuana. The crew restrained the suspect while the pilot issued an alert code and landed at the International Airport of Guadalajara in central Mexico.

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