WORLD IN BRIEF : SOVIET UNION : Travelers, Angry at Delays, Seize Plane

Soviet air travelers frustrated by delays seized control of a jetliner and demanded to be flown home, but the plane could not land because of bad weather, a newspaper reported. The group had been stranded for several days at an airport in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, and passengers became angry when the plane’s flight crew went home, Pravda reported. The travelers forced a pilot to make the 300-mile flight to the Kuril island of Iturup. But when the AN-24 plane approached the Iturup runway, it was unable to land because of the weather and was forced to return to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Pravda said.