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RAF Typhoons scrambled after Pakistan Airline incident

RAF Typhoon jets have been launched to investigate an incident involving a civilian aircraft within UK airspace, the Ministry of Defence has said.

A Pakistan International Airlines plane has been diverted from Manchester to Stansted Airport, a Manchester Airport spokesman said.

An Essex Police spokeswoman added: "An incident has occurred on an aircraft. Police and partners are responding."

The BBC understands that the plane has now landed in Stansted.

BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said that police were expected to meet the plane at the airport.

The plane, flight number PK709, reportedly left Lahore at 09:35 local time. It was due in at Manchester at 14:00 BST.


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RAF Typhoons scrambled after Pakistan Airline incident

RAF Typhoon jets have been launched to investigate an incident involving a civilian aircraft within UK airspace, the Ministry of Defence has said.

A Pakistan International Airlines plane has been diverted from Manchester to Stansted Airport, a Manchester Airport spokesman said.

An Essex Police spokeswoman added: "An incident has occurred on an aircraft. Police and partners are responding."

The BBC understands that the plane has now landed in Stansted.

BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said that police were expected to meet the plane at the airport.

The plane, flight number PK709, reportedly left Lahore at 09:35 local time. It was due in at Manchester at 14:00 BST.

The MoD said responsibility for the incident had now passed to Essex Police and the Home Office. The MoD was not able to say how serious a threat there was on board.

Philip Baum, of Aviation Security International, told the BBC: "This is certainly a significant incident, however the fact that fighter jets were scrambled to intercept is not unusual.

"We don't know what the incident was: fighter jets are scrambled when there is a bomb threat, when there is a hijack, when the wrong transponder code is used or if an aircraft cannot communicate with the ground. Often the result is when there is an unruly passenger on board.

"What is interesting in this case is that it would appear that the aircraft was only 10 minutes from landing - these are initial reports coming in -when they decided to divert to Stansted. So to actually change a destination 10 minutes from landing would certainly imply that there was some serious incident taking place."

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Anche il sito della Reuters Italia ne parla:

Gb, caccia scortano aereo di linea pakistano dopo "incidente"
venerdì 24 maggio 2013 15:35

LONDRA (Reuters) - La Gran Bretagna ha fatto alzare i propri jet da combattimento per scortare un aereo delle Pakistani International Airlines con a bordo 297 passeggeri e partito da Lahore, dopo che è stato deviato da Manchester.

Lo riferisce un portavoce del ministero della Difesa.

Il volo PK709 doveva atterrare a Manchester, nel nord dell'Inghilterra, alle 14,30 italiane. L'aereo è stato deviato sull'aeroporto di Stansted, a est di Londra, dove è atterrato, secondo quanto riferito da un portavoce dell'aeroporto di Manchester.

La polizia della contea di Essex, responsabile della zona dove si trova Stansted, ha riferito che a bordo di un volo c'è stato un incidente, non meglio specificato.

Una fonte della security precisa che dalle prime indicazioni sembrerebbe l'aereo non sia stato obiettivo di un attacco terroristico.
[Fonte Reuters Italia]

http://it.reuters.com/article/topNews/i ... 2N20130524

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Due uomini arrestati.

Officers boarded Pakistan International Airlines flight PK709, which had been due to land at Manchester, after it was diverted to Stansted Airport.

Two men, aged 30 and 41, are being held on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft, Essex Police said.

A PIA spokesman said all passengers on board were safe.

The plane reportedly left Lahore - the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab - at 09:35 local time. It was due in at Manchester at 14:00 BST.

BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said there was a suggestion there had been threats on board during the flight, involving some sort of weapon or bomb - although this was unconfirmed.

However, one passenger told the BBC that the pilot told them there had been threats.

Stansted Airport said the pilot had alerted the authorities to the incident, but it did not say what that incident was.

A spokesman for the airport said passengers were being taken off the plane.

"They will be taken to a reception centre in the airport where police may wish to interview them about what they have seen," he said.

"At some point police and the airline will arrange for their onward transportation to Manchester."

Stansted Airport earlier said on Twitter that it was operating normally.

A Manchester Airport spokesman said: "A Pakistan International Airlines aircraft which was due to land at Manchester Airport at 13.30 BST today has been diverted to our sister airport London Stansted, where the authorities are investigating."

Mashhood Tajwar, a spokesman for Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), said the incident followed a call to air traffic control.

He said that about 20 minutes to half an hour before landing, information received by air traffic control in Manchester indicated there might have been "some security threat".

"But so far it has not been ascertained what was the real motive behind that call," said Mr Tajwar.

He added: "The plane was diverted to Stansted and it has landed safely over there and all passengers are safe, and they have disembarked."

PIA said there were 308 passengers on board, as well as 14 crew including pilots, with a mixture of Pakistani and British passport holders.

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