Complex sentence: In February 2002, a turboprop plane flying from Florencia to Bogotá--a distance of some--was hijacked in midair by FARC members and forced to land on a highway strip near the city of Neiva, and then a member of the Colombian Congress was kidnapped.
Split into simpler sentences: In February 2002, a turboprop plane flying from Florencia to Bogotá--a distance of some--was hijacked in midair by FARC members. The plane was forced to land on a highway strip near the city of Neiva and then a member of the Colombian Congress was kidnapped.