Unlikely hijacker
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Bogotá, Colombia
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe ordered a review of airport security this week, after a wheelchair-bound man and his son smuggled grenades onto a plane and hijacked it. Porfirio Ramírez, 42, surrendered after five hours, saying he only wanted compensation for a police raid on his house that left him paralyzed 14 years ago. His wheelchair was too wide to pass through a metal detector, and security agents let him board a commuter flight without a thorough search. Negotiators gave him a $43,000 check as part of a deal to end the standoff, but the senator who brokered the surrender said the government would not honor it.
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