Iran's Revolutionary Guard on Friday said that authorities had disrupted an attempted hijacking of a passenger plane in flight the previous night, The Associated Press reported.
The purported hijacking targeted an Iran Air Fokker 100 regional commercial jet heading from the southwestern city of Ahvaz to the northwestern city of Mashhad, the Guard said.
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