Bail denied for pair arrested after PIA flight alert

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Two men charged with endangering an aircraft in Friday’s diversion of a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight have been denied bail.

The PIA Boeing 777, carrying 308 passengers, was shadowed into Stansted by an RAF Typhoon fighter jet after the pilot reported threats being made and landed at the Essex airport.

Wajid Hasan, Pakistan’s high commissioner to the UK, told CNN that the two passengers “got into an altercation with air stewardesses and threatened to blow up the plane”.

The flight attendants contacted the pilot, who contacted UK air traffic control authorities, who then scrambled the fighter jet, he said.

The aircraft later continued on to Manchester from Stansted after all the passengers and cargo were screened.

Tayyab Subhani, 30, and Mohammed Safdar, 41, were sent back to police custody after appearing at Chelmsford Magistrates Court.

Their next court appearance is scheduled for August 5, according to Essex police.

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  1. It has nothing to do with being of Pakistani origin. The point is a 'flight' that was full of 'Pakistani' people was threaghtened over british soil. Therefore, they took the nexessary steps to safeguard the lives of those on board.
    Now the purportrators will be punished accordingly.
    This 'event' has cost PIA and the UK Economy a lot of money to deal with, therefore, a relaxed approach won't be taken to ensure the correct message is sent out to anyone else who may think it is funny to make such remarks in the future.

  2. London you are absolutely right. These folks need to be taught that they cant treat a plane full of people as their personal property.

  3. What doesn't make any sense to me, is why anyone would do such a thing?

    There must be a reason for such kind of behaviour!

  4. The thing i dont get is why sheikh safder got arrested ? just because he tryed to stop the fight between the two men. And he is in court he is not a terriost he is the imam from tottenham mosqe,
    now he issuffering because of two idiots fighting on the plane.

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