A passenger plane reported to be carrying a bomb to target the opening of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics was ordered to be shot down by Russian President Vladimir Putin, he said in a new film Sunday.
In the two-hour documentary titled Putin, the President said that before the opening ceremony was due to start, he received a phone call from Olympic security officials saying a plane carrying 110 people had been hijacked, Reuters reports.
The report was a false alarm and the plane was not shot down, Putin said.
“I was told: a plane en route from Ukraine to Istanbul was seized, …read more
Source: Time
