(VOVworld)- Ukraine’s police have launched an investigation into whether a man who attempted to hijack a plane and force it to land in Sochi as leaders gathered for the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games has any links to terror groups. Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) investigative department chief Maxim Lenko told reporters on Saturday that Ukraine has launched an investigation into an attempt to commit an act of terror and an attempt to hijack a plane. Lenko said the Ukrainian - who one official in Kiev said was "in an advanced state of drunkenness" during the incident - had a personal dislike for the politics of President Viktor Yanukovych and his Russian counterpart and ally Vladimir Putin. The Ukrainian man, identified as Artem Hozlov, claimed he had a bomb and tried to divert a Turkey-bound Pegasus Airlines flight carrying 110 passengers which originated in Kharkiv, Ukraine toward Sochi. Turkey scrambled two F-16 jets to force down the airliner at Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen airport, where he was subdued by security officers who sneaked on board.  Mr Hozlov is believed to have been in a state of severe alcohol intoxication when the incident took place. No weapons or explosives were found on him.