On 7 February 2014 , during the opening ceremony and one day after the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics , a man attempted to hijack Pegasus Airlines Flight 751 that was on a flight from Kharkiv , Ukraine , to Istanbul , Turkey , saying he had a bomb on board , and demanding to be flown to Sochi , the host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics . The pilots turned off the inflight monitors and landed at Istanbul 's Sabiha Gökçen Airport , fooling the man into thinking he was landing in Sochi . The plane , a Boeing 737-800 reg TC-CCP , was escorted to Istanbul by two Turkish F-16 fighter jets . The man , who appeared to be severely intoxicated , was detained by police and taken to the Istanbul Security Headquarters . In 2018 , Russia 's President Vladimir Putin admitted that he ordered the shooting down of a passenger plane that was reportedly carrying a bomb and targeting the opening of the 2014 Winter Olympics
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2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremony
Concerns and controversies at the 2014 Winter Olympics