Yemenia Flight 448 was a domestic scheduled passenger flight piloted by Captain Amer Anis from Sana ' a to al-Hudaydah , Yemen , that was hijacked on 23 January 2001 .

The aircraft made an emergency landing Motion at Djibouti–Ambouli International Airport , where the flight crew , Led by flight captain Amer Anis , then overpowered Hold the hijacker in what US State Department Richard Boucher described the act as `` really terrific action '' .