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Flight to freedom ends in arrest and deportation

Saturday 19 February 1994 00:02 GMT
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The wife of a Chinese asylum-seeker being dragged back on board a China Southwest Airline Boeing 737 at Taipei airport after her husband hijacked the plane to Taiwan. The man was charged with piracy and his wife, mother and two sons sent back to China Photograph: Reuter

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