"I have not yet begun to fight!"

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Saturday, May 25, 2013

We’re going to blow up plane

RAF scrambled over jet ‘threat’

Held ... cops arrest a suspect after jet was diverted to Stansted

Stephen Huntley

By DAVID WILLETTS, Deputy Defence Editor, and MIKE SULLIVAN, Crime Editor

Published: 24th May 2013

TWO RAF jets were scrambled to intercept a Pakistani airliner after two passengers allegedly declared: “We’re going to blow this plane up.”

Stunned crew launched a terror alert yesterday afternoon after the men reportedly started a scuffle by trying to force their way into the cockpit of the Manchester-bound airline.
The Typhoon war jets flew out from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire and escorted the Boeing 777 and its 297 passengers to Stansted in Essex.

Safe ... Pakistani airliner is brought to rest on tarmac

Two British nationals aged 30 and 41 — who are said to be of Pakistani descent — were last night being held on suspicion of endangering an aircraft as cops scoured the plane for suspicious items.
This latest terror scare follows the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby by Muslim fanatics.
The Pakistan International Airlines flight left Lahore at 9.35am local time and was due in at Manchester at 2pm before being diverted.

ESSEX police give statement after a plane was escorted to the ground by fighter jets

Passengers were told bad weather had caused the diversion before learning the truth once they had landed safely.
Umari Nauman said: “The crew informed us that they tried to come into the cockpit a few times and got into an argument with the crew and made a few threats.”
Fellow passenger Faakhar Iqbal told a Pakistani journalist: “They started a row with a girl and were being abusive. Some people told them to calm down and staff got involved.

War jet ... Typhoon

“But when they approached one said, ‘Don’t talk to us or we’ll blow up the plane’. They were threatening the staff.”

RAF Typhoon jet, right, guides the plane to Stansted

Escort ... an RAF Typhoon jet, right, guides the plane

Armed cops stormed the plane at Stansted and took the suspects off in handcuffs.
The last passenger was escorted off at around 5pm as officers carried out interviews.
Essex Police are treating it as a “criminal investigation”.
Terrified relatives waiting to collect family in Manchester feared the airliner had been hijacked.
Mahmooda Aslam, 50, whose husband Mohammed, 57, was on board, said: “I was so scared but then my husband borrowed someone’s phone and called me.”
The same plane had been diverted to Stansted in 2011 due to a bomb scare.

TWO arrests as Typhoons escort Pakistan flight diverted from Manchester to Stansted

"I have not yet begun to fight!"

Saturday, May 25, 2013

We’re going to blow up plane

We’re going to blow up plane

RAF scrambled over jet ‘threat’

TWO RAF jets were scrambled to intercept a Pakistani airliner after two passengers allegedly declared: “We’re going to blow this plane up.”

Plane arrests: Police conference

RAF jets escort diverted Pakistani plane

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