Terror at 30,000 Feet As Passenger Plane Is Intercepted by Raf After Bomb Warning
The Scotsman › September 27, 2004
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TORNADO jet fighters were scrambled yesterday to intercept a passenger plane after threats of a bomb on board, underlining the constant state of alert maintained by the UK's security forces.
The RAF planes, armed with guns and air-to-air missiles, were called in by civilian controllers to escort an Olympic Airways flight travelling from Athens to New York's JFK airport with 301 passengers on board.See the full content of this document
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Terror at 30,000 Feet As Passenger Plane Is Intercepted by Raf After Bomb Warning
The passenger plane was re-routed to Stansted airport in Essex as part of a "full emergency", with escorting jets ready to bring the airliner down in the event of a 9/11-style hijacking.
The dramatic chain of events was sparked after Ethnos, ...See the full content of this document
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