BREAKING: Ethiopian Airlines’ Flight 702 Hijacked. Lands in Geneva.

By AirlineReporter.com Staff on February 16th, 2014

Photo of the Boeing 767 (reg ET-AMF) that could be possibly hi-jacked as flight ETH702 – Photo: Fabrice Clerc | Flicker CC

At 5:00pm Pacific Time, Ethiopian Flight 702, a Boeing 767-300 was flying over Sudan when it started squawking 7500. The transponder code, is supposed to indicate a “hijacking.”
Sometimes, pilots accidentally switch to this code or equipment malfunctions. This however, does not appear to be the case. The aircraft can be tracked live via Flightradar 24.
This was hopefully just an error, but this iwascertainly a deviation from normal flight.
We have reached out to a source who is an aircraft electrical expert and they confirmed that a “7500″ code can’t come from a glitch.
The flight, operating from Addis Abba to Rome has been confirmed by Rome Airport not to have arrived yet.  It is currently circling over Geneva Airport (GVA), with a military escort.  Emergency crews are standing by a GVA.