A woman jailed after she hijacked an Air New Zealand flight is warning she will do it again when she is released.
Asha Ali Abdille, a refugee from Somalia, was sentenced to nine years in jail after trying to hijack a flight from Blenheim to Christchurch in February, 2008.
The then 33-year-old stabbed both pilots and a female passenger suffered minor wounds as she tried to restrain Abdille.
Abdille - whose sentence is due to end in February - is still classified as a high risk and has reportedly warned that given the chance, she will attempt to hijack an aircraft again.
Radio NZ obtained a written summary of a Parole Board hearing for Abdille, in which is reads that she has "said that she will attempt to hijack another plane and has threatened to set herself on fire.''
