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BELMOPAN, Belize – Police Commissioner Chester Williams says “it is reasonable to say” that justifiable force was used by the passenger who shot and killed plane hijacker Akinyela Taylor.

Last Thursday Taylor hijacked a Cessna 208EX Grand Caravan carrying 15 passengers and one pilot. None of the passengers were fatally wounded, and the three men who were stabbed in the incident are in stable condition. According to authorities, passengers Jair Castaneda and Fitzgerald Brown have been released, while pilot Howell Grange remains hospitalised.

Taylor, an American citizen, was killed when the plane landed at the Philip Goldson International Airport by one of the passengers, who was armed with a licensed gun.