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Security Incident Right Now At LHR

  • 09-01-2010 12:17AM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,266 ✭✭✭


    Just after happening, on Sky News ( TV Not Internet yet ) Armed Police have removed 2 suspects from a flight.

    Will post links when available on net.


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,266 ✭✭✭Steyr


    Airport remains open, it happened on an Emirates Aircraft.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    The marvel of modern technology! The first anyone heard of it was a person sending picture messages from the plane to Sky News!:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,266 ✭✭✭Steyr


    http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Heathrow-Airport-Security-Alert-On-Plane/Article/201001215517515?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15517515_Heathrow_Airport%3A_Security_Alert_On_Plane

    Breaking News11:24pm UK, Friday January 08, 2010
    Security Incident At Heathrow Airport
    Ian Collier, Sky News Online

    Police are attending a security alert at London's Heathrow Airport.

    One passenger told Sky News armed police boarded a flight, believed to have been bound for Dubai, and took a man off in handcuffs.

    Cameron McLean said: "Police just swarmed the guy and rushed him out.

    "I think he was a white male. There was another one but I didn't see him."

    He said the man was taken out in handcuffs then sniffer dogs were brought on board.

    An airport spokesman said: "I can confirm there has been an incident on the EK004 flight to Dubai.

    "Police are attending. It's not affecting the rest of the airport which remains opens."

    Sky's home affairs correspondent Mark White said what appears to be C019 armed response officers boarded the flight.

    More follows...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,266 ✭✭✭Steyr


    Sky dont miss a beat do they!

    http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Heathrow-Airport-Security-Alert-On-Plane/Article/201001215517515?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15517515_Heathrow_Airport%3A_Security_Alert_On_Plane

    Breaking News11:36pm UK, Friday January 08, 2010
    Cops Board Heathrow Jet After 'Verbal Threat'
    Ian Collier, Sky News Online

    Armed police have boarded a plane at Heathrow airport and are believed to have arrested two men after a "verbal threat", according to reports.

    Passenger Cameron McLean said: "Police just swarmed the guy and rushed him out.

    "I think he was a white male. There was another one but I didn't see him."

    He said the man was taken out in handcuffs then sniffer dogs were brought on board.

    An airport spokesman said: "I can confirm there has been an incident on the EK004 flight to Dubai.

    "Police are attending. It's not affecting the rest of the airport which remains opens."

    Sky's home affairs correspondent Mark White said what appears to be C019 armed response officers boarded the flight.

    The incident comes amid heightened tension at airports across the world in the wake of the botched Christmas Day bombings.

    Extra bag checks, body searches and on board regulations have seen travellers in London wait up to three hours before taking off.

    Former London student Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, 23, made his first public court appearance earlier facing charges of trying to ignite explosives on a US airliner over Detroit.

    Authorities say the Nigerian as travelling from Amsterdam to Detroit when he tried to destroy the Northwest Airlines plane carrying nearly 300 people by injecting chemicals into a package of explosives concealed in his underwear.

    He is alleged to have links with al Qaeda.

    Judge Mark Randon entered a not guilty plea for Abdul Mutallab, who could face up to life in prison on the most serious charge - attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,321 ✭✭✭Foggy43


    Had the incident on Christmas Day not taken place this incident would never have been reported.


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