Passenger detained after demanding plane change course- investigators

A passenger on a commercial airliner that was flying to Moscow from Siberia has been detained by law enforcement after he forced the plane to make an unplanned landing in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russian investigators said on Tuesday.

The passenger tried to break into the cockpit during the flight and demanded the plane change course, they said in a statement. He was drunk, it added.

(Reporting by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber and Andrew Osborn; writing by Tom Balmforth; editing by John Stonestreet)

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