Hijacking message a prank
`A man on board a flight from Sydney Airport caused a major international security alert when he text-messaged his wife overseas to tell her his plane had been hijacked by Islamic terrorists. [..]
Mr Casale’s distressed wife alerted Italian police within minutes of receiving the flurry of messages at home in Milan.
Australian Federal Police were then told a group of terrorists had possibly boarded the flight in Sydney and were asked by Italian authorities to carry out background checks on all passengers.
Anti-terror agents in Kuala Lumpur were also tipped off about the possibility of another September 11-style terror attack. [..]’
