Typhoon jets escorted a Ryanair flight to a UK airport after a mobile phone sparked a bogus terror alert. A 34-year-old man from Kuwait and a 48-year-old man from Italy were arrested after the "suspicious item" was discovered in a plane toilet.
But they were later released without charge after the device turned out to be a simple mobile. Two RAF fighter planes had been scrambled to intercept the flight en route from Vienna on Sunday.
A spokesman for the Eastern Region Special Operations Unit confirmed the object was a mobile phone and "not of concern". Were you on board?
Email webnews @mirror.co.uk The Unit's counter-terror head, DS Andy Waldie, said: "We understandably take any reports of suspicious objects or behaviour on flights very
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