2006年NEWS BROADCAST(1/3)-英语听力

[00:00.00]A man stole a small aircraft at gunpoint Sunday and flew it over downtown Frankfurt, [00:06.35]circling skyscrapers and threatening to crash into the European Central Bank. [00:11.76]He landed safely after about two hours and was arrested. [00:16.18]The man told a television station he wanted to call attention to Judith Resnik, [00:21.34]a U.S. astronaut killed in the 1986 post-launch explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. [00:28.92]Military jets chased the stolen, two-seat motorized glider as the man began circling slowly above Frankfurt's banking district. [00:38.30]Thousands of people were evacuated from the main railway station, two opera houses and several skyscrapers. [00:45.70]Police identified the man as a 31-year-old German student from Darmstadt, a city about 25 miles south of Frankfurt. [00:54.68]In radio contact with air traffic controllers, the man threatened to crash into the European Central Bank headquarters [01:02.63]unless he was allowed the TV interview as well as a call to Baltimore. [01:07.91]He later said he wanted to commit suicide by plunging the plane into the Main River. [01:13.94]It was unclear if the man was forced to land or talked down. [01:18.83]Air traffic controllers and a police psychologist had been in contact with him.