Spain: a plane lands urgently, about twenty passengers take the opportunity to flee
A dozen people still on the run this Saturday, November 6, 2021, after what Spain considers an unprecedented attempt to enter its territory.
Photo: Palma de Mallorca airport, August 2020. AFP - JAIME REINA
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An unusual story, Friday, November 5, 2021, at Palma de Mallorca airport, in Spain: when a plane had just landed in emergency for medical reasons, about twenty passengers took the opportunity to escape and sow the panic.
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With our correspondent in Barcelona,
Élise Gazengel
Everything was a stunt to enter Spanish territory illegally.
In any case, this is what the authorities think about the incredible incident that occurred Friday evening at Palma de Mallorca airport, in the Balearic Islands.
At around 8 p.m., the Air Arabia Airbus, which linked Casablanca to Istanbul, had to land urgently when one of its passengers claimed to be suffering from a serious diabetic crisis.
But when the doctors got on board, about twenty passengers took the opportunity to get out on the tarmac and then flee, causing the closure of the Spanish airport for nearly four hours and the cancellation of about fifty flights.
Esperas en llegada a #Palma y posibles desvíos.
Tráfico con destino a ese aeropuerto parado por seguridad.
Al parecer ha aterrizado un vuelo y podría haber pasajeros de dicho vuelo deambulando por pistas y rodadura.
#SafetyFirst pic.twitter.com/U07VBHMwzO
- 😷Controladores Aéreos 🇪🇸 (@controladores) November 5, 2021
The patient was taken to the emergency room, accompanied by a friend who also escaped from the hospital.
And the medical examination revealed that the diabetic was in fact perfectly healthy.
The Spanish police then arrested the imaginary patient and found eleven fugitives around the airport.
A dozen other people were still at large on Saturday, November 6 after what the country considers an unprecedented attempt to enter its territory.
A group of pasajeros invaded the pistas del aeropuerto de Palma forced it to paralizar los vuelos tras una falsa emergencia médica.
La policía trabaja con la hipótesis de que el desvío de un avión que volaba de Marruecos a Turquía estuviera orquestado https://t.co/AdxF4N6Kz3
- EL PAÍS (@el_pais) November 6, 2021
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