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"Miscommunication" leads to Amsterdam plane hijack scare Aug 29th 2012, 13:53 Tweet Share this Email Print Related News Dutch police say plane hijack alert due to loss of contact: media 9:24am EDT Analysis & Opinion To pity or not to pity Vijay Mallya Related Topics World » Aerospace & Defense » Sign shows direction to the departure of Alitalia and Iberia flights at Amsterdam Schiphol airport on May 12, 1998. Credit: Reuters/Str Old AMSTERDAM | Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:25am EDT AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Miscommunication between a Spanish airline pilot and Dutch ground control caused a hijack scare on Wednesday that led the Netherlands to send F-16 fighters to intercept a plane, the airline said. "There was never any danger. There was a lack of communication between the pilot and the tower and the airport has activated the security protocol," a spokeswoman for Spanish carrier Vueling said. The airline's flight from Malaga in Spain to Amsterdam was surrounded by Dutch security forces on landing at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport. The Dutch Defence Ministry had sent two F-16 fighters to intercept the airplane after suspecting a hijacking, a Dutch military police spokesman told Reuters. "We are still trying to establish communication with passengers and with the crew," Martijn Peelen, spokesman for the military police, told Reuters by phone. A passenger on board the plane said nothing unusual was happening, Dutch broadcaster NOS reported, quoting the passenger. "In fact nothing was going on. We had to fly a few rounds. We are now waiting in the plane, the doors are still closed. But there is no hijack," NOS quoted the person as saying. (Reporting by Ivana Sekularac, Thomas Escritt, Gilbert Kreijger and Madrid Newsroom; Editing by Peter Graff) Related Quotes and News Company Price Related News Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above.

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