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A member of a gang which hijacked a plane that landed at Stansted Airport now works at a British Airways office building near Heathrow.ADVERTISEMENTAfghan national Nazamuddin Mohammidy, 34, of Hounslow, Middlesex, is employed by a cleaning contractor only a mile from the airport, the company confirmed.Mohammidy is one of nine men who seized an Ariana plane in February 2000 on an internal flight in Afghanistan and ordered the pilot to fly to Stansted.They were given asylum despite attempts by the Government to remove them.His job came to light after he was stopped by police at the airport's Terminal 5. He works about a mile away at a BA office building and training centre.Mohammidy was held for allegedly breaching the conditions of his bail over charges of assault and criminal damage from December last year.He appeared in custody before Uxbridge magistrates on Wednesday accused of being in breach of bail after being charged with assault and criminal damage in December last year. He will appear before Ealing Magistrates Court on May 19.A spokesman for British Airways said Mohammidy did not work inside the airport and did not have an airside pass.The gang who hijacked the airline have since apologised to the ill-fated passengers for the fear they caused by their actions.Mohammidy was jailed for 30 months for his part in the hijacking but all of the gang members later had their convictions quashed by the Court of Appeal, which decided they had been acting under duress as they fled the Taliban.They went on to win a High Court ruling preventing the Government from deporting them.The men, who said they had taken enormous personal risks to organise secret schools for girls in Afghanistan, said they considered themselves to be allies of Britain in its struggle against terrorism.

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