COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—A Colorado Springs woman is home after enduring a flight that was briefly hijacked as it landed in Mexico City.
Pamela Cheatham arrived in Colorado Springs Thursday afternoon. She was one of 103 passengers and crew members on a jetliner hijacked Wednesday by a Bolivian man who said he had a bomb, later found to be juice cans filled with sand.
Everyone on board was released unharmed.
Cheatham told KRDO-TV in Colorado Springs that the flight out of Cancun was normal. But she says the plane didn’t go to the terminal when it landed; it stayed on the tarmac.
Women and children were released. Cheatham says passengers were taken to a hangar. No one was allowed to make calls, so she sent her family text messages.
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Information from: KRDO-TV,
