A Mauritanian man hijacked a plane to France and demanded that it go to France. The man was unable to speak French and spoke only Arabic. The pilot told him that he did not have enough fuel to go to France and that they would land in the Canary Islands. Then, over the loud speaker system, the pilot told the passengers, in French, that he would land very hard on the runway and speed up, so when the armed hijacker was knocked over on landing, please could the passengers jump him. They did. “When the pilot landed he deliberately braked very hard. The man fell to the ground and was jumped on by passengers. He fired two bullets but there are no serious injuries,” the Mauritanian sources said.