NETHERLANDS * RUSSIA * PLANE * HIJACKING * COURT








THE HAGUE, MARCH 3, 2001. /RIA Novosti correspondent Andrei Poskakukhin/ -- The Court of the Dutch city of Harlem has  sentenced a 48-year-old Russian citizen who tried to hijack a passenger plane on November 8, 2000, to 18 months in prison. 


	The SAS air liner was on a regular Copenhagen-Amsterdam flight when a Russian passenger passed its crew a note with a threat to blow up the plane unless he was given a million  dollars. Ten minutes later the self-styled hijacker said that he had no bomb and quietly remained in his seat for the rest of the flight. 


	When the plane landed at Amsterdam's Airport, the man was arrested. He did not appeal for help to the Russian consulate.