Hijacker Achieves Childhood Dream Of Becoming Pilot

OFTEN LISTED as the most desired career of the average person, becoming a pilot is a dream for many but as we know dreams don’t always come true.

However, for 23-year-old Adem Zelimkhanov that wasn’t the case as he achieved that burning desire from his childhood on flight ZPL233 at around 11.33am this morning.

“Tell traffic control everything is okay or I’ll put a bullet in your head,” Zelimkhanov said as he commandeered control of a transatlantic flight, the delight clear on his face as pilot Andrew Mannings relinquished control but not before offering some generous advice on how to keep the plane in the sky.

“I can’t believe I’m living the dream,” a beaming Zelimkhanov said to negotiators trying to communicate with him over the cockpit radio.

“He was always very plane obsessed was my Adem, if it wasn’t making the plane noise to get food in his mouth when he was a toddler, it was the model airplanes we bought him as a teenager, and more recently his detailed study of airport security,” Zelimkhanov’s mother Asma told reporters who had descended on her doorstep to share the news that her son’s lifetime ambition had come true.

“No formal training either, he’s a natural. I always said it, that boy could put his hand to anything”.