A Mexican airliner with 104 passengers on board was hijacked in the resort of Cancun today and flown to Mexico City's international airport.
Security forces arrived at the airport, where the hijacked Boeing 737 plane from the airline Aeromexico stood on the runway. All the passengers and plane crew were able to leave the plane.
At least six suspected hijackers were arrested, according to local television stations. The country's Communications Minister Juan Molinar said that the situation is completely under control, that all passengers are safe and sound and that the six hijackers had managed to smuggle a bomb aboard the plane.
The plane, flown by Aeromexico, hijacked after it left the popular Caribbean resort of Cancun on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico
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