{"id":3156,"date":"2010-01-09T17:14:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T15:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=3156"},"modified":"2010-01-09T17:14:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T15:14:55","slug":"heathrow-plane-bomb-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/heathrow-plane-bomb-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Three men arrested over Heathrow plane bomb threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/heathrow-police.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3157\" title=\"Three men arrested over Heathrow plane bomb threat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/heathrow-police-280x168.jpg\" alt=\"Three men arrested over Heathrow plane bomb threat\" width=\"280\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/heathrow-police-280x168.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/heathrow-police.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>Three men have been arrested on suspicion of making a bomb threat on a plane as it readied for take-off at Heathrow airport.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Armed counter-terrorist officers boarded the Dubai-bound Emirates flight last night after a &#8220;verbal threat&#8221; was made to air crew at 9.15pm.<\/p>\n<p>The Metropolitan police said the three men, aged 58, 48 and 36, were in custody. It is thought they were all British men travelling in economy class.<\/p>\n<p>One passenger said she saw armed police board the flight and take a man off in handcuffs.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron McLean told Sky News: &#8220;Police just swarmed the guy and rushed him out. I think he was a white male. There was another one but I didn&#8217;t see him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man was removed in handcuffs then sniffer dogs were brought on board, McLean said.<\/p>\n<p>Police today released the plane, which had been carrying 331 passengers, to the airline after finding no dangerous items.<\/p>\n<p>Emirates said passengers had been given hotel accommodation overnight and the flight would now leave at 3pm today.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the airline said: &#8220;Following remarks made as Emirates flight EK004 prepared to depart London Heathrow for Dubai [yesterday] evening, crew alerted the Metropolitan police who subsequently boarded the aircraft and detained three passengers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The safety and security of all our passengers is paramount. Police are currently assessing the situation and we apologise for the inconvenience to our passengers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 13)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three men have been arrested on suspicion of making a bomb threat on a plane as it readied for take-off at Heathrow airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118,895],"tags":[4121,4123,4118,4120,4117],"class_list":["post-3156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-life","tag-cameron-mclean","tag-heathrow-airport","tag-heathrow-plane","tag-heathrow-plane-bomb","tag-heathrow-plane-bomb-threat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}