A British Airways plane is reported to have come "within seconds of disaster" over Africa after a passenger stormed into the cockpit and tried to seize the controls. There were 398 people on board the flight from London's Gatwick Airport to Nairobi in Kenya. The crew of the Boeing 747 wrestled with the male passenger, said to be a Kenyan national and "hysterical". In the struggle the auto-pilot became disengaged and the jumbo was knocked off course, diving violently and plunging thousands of feet. Several passengers were injured by the jet's violent movements. The Kenyan man is now being held by police and British Airways has begun an investigation into the incident.
