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Gatwick Bomb Scare
If you happened to be at London Gatwick international airport at 6:45 AM on Sunday, you're probably still mad.United Arab Emirates flight EK 011 from Dubai was ten minutes from landing at London Gatwick when they found a note "implying there may be a suspicious device on board."
Craptastic.
All 164 passengers and the crew were escorted from the plane (which is fine for them, they were probably about ready to get off anyway), but then the entire airport was shut down (!) while the aircraft and luggage were searched for a bomb!
Airport activity resumed about eight hours later and a man in his 20's was arrested -- no word yet on whether he was a passenger. Gatwick airport, as far as we know, is still there.
Filed under: United Kingdom, Airports, News
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
u07ch Mar 23rd 2009 1:55PM
i thought the airline code EK was just Emirates; and the country was UAE.