INTERNATIONAL NEWS - A plane with 180 passengers has landed at Amsterdam-Schiphol airport with a possible hijacking in progress, the Dutch military police said Wednesday, but the airline involved denied that there had been a hijacking attempt.

"The plane has landed at Schiphol. There is a possible hijacking and the police have surrounded the plane," an official of the royal Dutch military police told AFP. "We are trying to make contact with the people in the plane."

The Vueling plane is believed to have been en route from Malaga in Spain and was accompanied by two Dutch F-16 fighters as it entered Dutch airspace, the military police official said.

Dutch media reported that radio contact had been lost.

A spokeswoman for Vueling however denied that its plane was the subject of a hijacking attempt.

"It's not true," she said, without giving further details.

Source : Sapa