March 28, 2003

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[edit] March 28, 2003

• SARS: The Hong Kong government imposes a quarantine on a group of over 1000 people, and closes schools for nine days in an attempt to stop the spread of SARS.
• Fujitsu releases the HOAP-2, a humanoid robot product running the open standard Linux operating system.
• Turkish Airlines' Airbus A310 was hijacked shortly after leaving Istanbul. At least three Turkish parliamentarians are among 196 passengers and eight aircrew members on the Flight TK 160 landed in Athens, Greece. The hijacker surrendered later in the day. [1]