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The man who hijacked a Philippine Airlines jet and died after bailing out of
the plane with a homemade parachute had dreamed of becoming a skydiver, his
brother said yesterday.

"He longed to be a skydiver," Rannie Chua said of his older brother, Reginald.
"But he had never jumped before."

Reginald Chua wore a ski mask and swimming goggles and was armed with a grenade
and a pistol when he announced he was hijacking the flight Thursday from Davao
City to Manila.

He ordered the pilot of the Airbus 330 to turn back to Davao, but when he was
told there was not enough fuel, he
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Hijacker wanted to be a skydiver

May 30, 2000 - 12:00am

The man who hijacked a Philippine Airlines jet and died after bailing out of the plane with a homemade parachute had dreamed of becoming a skydiver, his brother said yesterday. "He longed to be a skydiver,"...

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