British police arrested two men aboard a diverted Pakistani airliner on Friday after Britain’s Royal Air Force scrambled Typhoon fighter jets to escort the airplane flying from Lahore to Manchester, in the north of England, according to defense ministry officials and the police.
A spokesman for Pakistan International Airlines said the two men had threatened to blow the plane up, then said they were joking.
Airport authorities in Manchester said the Pakistan International Airlines plane, with more than 300 people on board, had been due to land there but had been diverted to Stansted, just north of London, where it landed and taxied to a remote area.
The police at Stansted said that officers then boarded the plane and arrested two men ages 30 and 41 “on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft.”
nytimes
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