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Yuji Nishizawa, a jobless Tokyo man with an obsession for playing flight simulation computer games, seized control of the aircraft two minutes after it took off when he leapt from his seat, grabbed a stewardess and held a 12-inch knife to her throat.
Yasuhiro Fukuda, 42, a passenger on the flight, said the airliner took a terrifying plunge towards the ground after the hijacker burst into the cockpit.
The terrified passengers were assured by a flight attendant that the situation was under control as the plane climbed and returned to Tokyo.
All Nippon AirwaysFlight61 is a flight from Tokyo International Airport (Haneda Airport) in Ota, Tokyo, Japan, to New Chitose Airport in Chitose, Japan, near Sapporo.
On July 24, 1999, the Boeing 747 on this route was hijacked soon after it took off, at about 11:25 A.M. The jet was flying over the Boso Peninsula in the Chiba Prefecture.
A 60-year old female passenger from the Chiba Prefecture, who was on the flight, reported that passengers clapped after the hijacker was subdued.