The plane landed at Kaohsiung and later returned to Taipei where members of the cabin crew appeared at a press conference.
Many factory owners have to come to brokerage houses to snatch their employees back to work," Su San-ho, a stock manager at the Well Phones Securities Co. in the port city of Kaohsiung, 216 miles south of Taipei, said during a recent interview.
The government accuses him of helping organize an anti-government demonstration in 1979 Kaohsiung port. Protest leaders said the 1979 protest was aimed only at demanding more political freedom.
The Boeing 737 jetliner was carrying 114 people, including one American, on a flight from Taipei to the southern port city of Kaohsiung, 240 miles away, when the hijack attempt by the 29-year-old man occurred.