Somali who tried to hijack NZ plane gets 9 years
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A Somali refugee was sentenced to nine years in prison Friday after pleading guilty to trying to hijack a small domestic airliner in 2008 in the first such attack in New Zealand.
Asha Ali Abdille, 33, took three knives aboard the flight, which she demanded be diverted to Australia. The pilots refused, saying the airplane, which was flying between the provincial town of Blenheim and the city of Christchurch, both on South Island, didn't have enough fuel. (AP)
