Bomb threat...A military fighter jet escorts a passenger jet as it comes in to land at Manchester airport. BRITISH police have arrested a man suspected of making a hoax bomb threat aboard a Qatar Airways plane that caused it to be escorted down by a military fighter jet. A Royal Air Force Typhoon guided the plane, which was travelling from Doha with 282 people on board on Tuesday, to Manchester airport in northwest England. Witnesses on board said armed police entered the aircraft and escorted the suspect off with his hands on his head. “A 47-year-old man from the northwest (of England) has been arrested on suspicion of making a bomb hoax and remains in police custody for questioning,” said Chief Superintendent John O’Hare of Greater Manchester Police. Bomb threat...A military fighter jet escorts a passenger jet as it comes in to land at Ma “A full search of the aircraft has now finished and nothing suspicious was found. “The incident arose when the pilot received information about a possible device on board the plane, having been handed a note from a passenger.” Several emergency response vehicles could be seen parked around the plane. Passenger Aurang Zeb, 60, said: “I saw all the police with guns. Lots of police everywhere. “Kids were crying, some people looked very worried because of rumours there’s a bomb on the plane.” He said two armed police officers came on board and removed the suspect passenger, who said nothing. Passenger Matthew Cox, 24, from nearby Chester, said: “There was a general kind of nervousness but there was no full-scale panic once on the ground.” He said all the passengers’ luggage was searched before they were allowed to leave the airport.
Posted on: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 19:23:29 +0000
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