Former Lebanese hijacker builds own plane

After 17 years behind bars in a Swiss jail for hijacking a plane and killing a passenger, Hussein Hariri's dream now is to fly a plane he built with his own hands.

"One day when I was in prison, I landed on a book about planes dating back to World War II. I read it in 10 days," said Hariri, 39, who returned in 2004 to his native village of Deir Qanun an-Nahr, in southern Lebanon.

"I was so taken by the book that I contacted the University of Lausanne ... and they gave me all the books they had about planes," he said.

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