08/09/1998 10:38:03 Passengers leave hijacked Russian plane

MOSCOW, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Passengers on a Russian airliner

reported hijacked at a Moscow airport on Sunday have left the

plane unharmed, a spokesman for the Federal Security Service

said, but he could not say what happened to the hijacker.

"One thing I can tell you: no one is preventing them from

leaving the plane," a spokesman for the Moscow section of the

Federal Security Service told Reuters. There were 97 passengers

on the Tupolev TU-154, which had arrived on a domestic flight

from Siberia.