An aircraft of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) was landed in an emergency security basis at the Stansted airport which was supposed to land on the Manchester airport and was boarded with around 350 people! This incident took place on Friday, 24th May.
The aircraft was landed with a high security alert and was guarded with Royal Air Force, taxied on the northern corner of the Stansted Airport, a bit away from the regular terminal area so that, other aircraft movement would not get hampered. After that, all the passengers were evacuated from the plane leaving their belongings on the aircraft. They were taken to an airport lounge surrounded by a large number of polices. The aircraft is now being investigated by forensic specialists and not yet any mistrustful or destructive items recovered!
The most important part of this incident was that two men of age 30 and 41 were arrested who had made the breach of security in the aircraft. Now, they are going through interrogation to find out any clue of “why they did so?” Though Essex police officers have confirmed the incident as not a terrorist attack and it is now being treated as “a criminal offense.”
Mashhud Tajwar, a PIA spokesman informed that, the arrested men threatened one of the cabin crew of the plane that they would blow the plane up! It was the news before the aircraft landed, and after confirming, Mr Tajwar also said that those men explained the situation like they were joking but the pilot didn’t take the risk of 300 peoples’ life. So a bomb threat was there which was cleared off later, published in the New York Times. The actual information was found after interviewing some passengers; they said that the cabin crews told them that the two men tried to enter the cockpit a couple of times and the crew did not allow them. Then they threatened them, and argued with the cabin crews which compelled the pilots to report this disruptive behavior. Request to divert the aircraft from Manchester to the third airport of London was required.
A Spokesman from the Stansted Airport also assumed that the police may interrogate all the passengers to know the brim of this incident. But now, the main headache of the PIA is to make sure, how the passengers can reach their destination as early as possible though they are being looked after by the Stansted airport staffs. There is a chance to work on this by both, the airlines and the police!
After talking with the passengers, some hints of the incident can be recovered. As Passenger Umari Nauman stated “The cabin crew informed us that they tried to enter the cockpit a few times.”
Manchester inhabitant Mahmouda Aslam told “I am waiting in the airport for my husband Mohammed. He was on the flight. I spoke with him over mobile phone and asked if he was alright or scared? He said, “We are all OK. The flight is full of police.”
Zohaib Sattar, 24 came from the Huddersfiled to the airport for receiving his wife and father and informed after talking with them “My father said that the plane just turned around without any warning.”
But, why those men tried to enter the cockpit? Were they really harmless? Their motivation must bring out in the light.
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