Dozens escape Morocco-Turkey plane after Spain emergency landing

Barcelona police detain 14 passengers and seek for 14 others who ran throughout the tarmac at El Prat airport after inflicting an emergency touchdown below a false pretext.

Police officers patrol at Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport, in Barcelona, Spain
Cops patrol at Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport [File: Nacho Doce/Reuters]

Twenty-eight folks have run away throughout the tarmac in Barcelona’s El Prat airport after prompting an emergency touchdown of a Morocco-Turkey flight below a false pretext, based on the Spanish authorities.

Police detained 14 folks, together with a pregnant girl who officers declare pretended her water had damaged, prompting the emergency touchdown on Wednesday morning, the federal government mentioned. An extra 14 folks haven't but been discovered.

5 of these detained had been instantly put again on the airplane operated by Turkey’s Pegasus Airways whereas eight can be deported to Morocco.

The pregnant girl was taken to hospital and located to not be in labour, the federal government mentioned.

The airplane was carrying a complete of 228 passengers from Casablanca to Istanbul.

In October final yr, a bunch of passengers fled from a airplane onto the runway in Spain’s Mallorca island following an emergency touchdown below a false pretext and 12 of them had been arrested, whereas one other 12 escaped.

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