A US citizen hijacked a small Tropic Air Plane in Belize on Thursday. Akinyela Sawa Taylor pulled a knife when the plane was in the air, he demanded that domestic flight take him out of the country.
The Tropic Air plane was carrying 14 passengers and two crew members. The plane was flying from Corozal a small town near Belize’s border with Mexico, it was heading to the poplular tourist dstination of San Pedro.
According to Police Commissioner Chester Williams, Taylor stabbed three people on board, including the pilot and the passenger who shot Taylor with a licensed firearm.
Williams said that the passenger who managed to shoot at Taylor was stabbed in his back and suff