US Army veteran stole a plane and tried to kill the pilot (video)

On board the Cessna Grand Caravan Belizan Airlines, Tropic Air, flying from Korosal to the island of San Pedro, was 14 passengers when the kidnappers took control of the aircraft, threatening the pilot and passengers. He wounded two and demanded that the pilot take him out of the country, but his injured passenger shot the kidnapps in his chest with a licensed weapon.

Taylor -captured the plane circled over the shoreline near the city of Belize for more than two hours, and after planting it turned out that fuel almost ended in the tank. The abductor died in a hospital, one of his injured passengers, the one who shot him - in a serious condition after Taylor hit him with a knife in his back, damaging his lung. The details of the incident are still unknown, as are the motives of the abductor.

But the police commissioner Chester Williams said Taylor had been refused entry into Belize before, and it is unclear how he managed to cross the border. During the incident, a rescue helicopter was followed. "We hoped for the best. The helicopter had to follow the plane to see where it land. So if they decided to land the plane in the sea or on one of the islands, we would have arrived quickly to react and assist passengers," he told reporters.

Williams reported that internal flight safety procedures would be revised. US Embassy representative Luke Martin told reporters that the Embassy was working with Belize to investigate the incident. "We share this obligation with them to make sure that Belize is safe, the airlines are safe, tourists who come here are safe, and the borders are safe and protected," he said.