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PIA plan diverted till London Stansted efter 2 passagerare hotade att spränga planet

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2 men arrested after flight from Pakistan diverted in UK airspace - CNN.com

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2 men arrested after flight from Pakistan diverted in UK airspace
May 25, 2013 -- Updated 0430 GMT (1230 HKT)

London (CNN) -- Police arrested two men Friday on suspicion of endangering an aircraft after a flight from Pakistan to the United Kingdom was diverted to Stansted Airport, outside of London.

A UK fighter jet was scrambled to escort Pakistan International Airlines Flight PK709 from Lahore as it was diverted from northwestern England's Manchester Airport to Stansted.

Essex Police, who cover the area near Stansted airport, said officers had arrested the men and removed them from the plane, which had 297 passengers aboard.

Police declined to release the identities of the two men, saying only they are British nationals ages 30 and 41.

Police said the incident is being treated as a criminal offense, and did not mention a terrorism angle.

Wajid Hasan, Pakistan's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, told CNN that the two passengers "got into an altercation with air stewardesses and threatened to blow up the plane."

The flight attendants contacted the pilot, who contacted UK air traffic control authorities, who then scrambled the fighter jets, he said.

Vilka idioter som hotar kabinpersonal genom att säga "spränga planet".
Det ser ut som PIA planet fick UK luftvapnets escort.
 
Än än gång är Royal Air Force på hugget. Undrar om flygvapnets incidentberedskap är lika snabbt på plats om samma situation skulle uppstå i Sverige...
 
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