MOSCOW, October 27 (RIA Novosti) - A man detained last week after threatening to blow up a plane flying from south Russia to Moscow has been retained in custody, the Prosecutor General's investigative committee said on Monday.
Oleg Vasyanovich, who has a criminal record and a history of mental illness, threatened last Friday to blow up a Boeing-737-500 airliner flying from the Black Sea resort town of Adler to Moscow, and demanded that the pilot fly to Vienna.
He was detained by police after the plane landed at Moscow's Vnukovo airport and faces up to eight years in prison if convicted.
Vasyanovich, born in 1975, was convicted of murdering his mother in 2001, but was put in a psychiatric hospital after being declared insane.
The Commercial Sky Express airline, which owns the aircraft, said 130 people were on board the flight.
