Singapore hijack planned

A suspect accused of plotting to crash an airliner into Singapore's Changi airport planned to hijack a US, British or Singapore Airlines plane for the attack.

A website linked to the Singapore government said a Federal Aviation Administration alert was issued on December 29 in response to the threat linked to Mas Selamat Kastari, a member of a radical Islamic group.

Indonesian police in North Sumatra said Kastari and four other Singaporeans arrived by ferry in January but their whereabouts were not known. Singapore police arrested 15 people in December on suspicion of plotting to bomb US targets. Two have since been freed and the rest detained without trial for two years.