Barcelona: A group of migrants in Spain made an emergency landing of a plane by pretending to be a woman’s mother, and got off the plane and escaped.
According to foreign media reports, twenty-seven people got off the plane and fled the airport while the woman was being taken off the plane for medical assistance at Barcelona Airport in Spain.
According to Reuters, a commercial flight from Morocco to Turkey made an emergency landing at Barcelona’s El Prat airport in the early hours of Wednesday, the Spanish government said. They ran away.
Police initially detained 14 people, including a pregnant woman who authorities said had feigned labor pains but was taken to a hospital, the government said. So she was not in labor.
According to officials, two more people were later arrested, one of whom was caught inside the airport and the other was found outside, but 12 more people are still unaccounted for.
Five of those detained were immediately flown back on a plane operated by Turkey’s Pegasus Airlines, while at least eight others will be flown to Morocco. The said plane was carrying a total of 228 passengers from Casablanca to Istanbul.
It may be recalled that a similar incident happened in October last year, when a group of passengers made an emergency landing on the Spanish island of Mallorca under similar false pretenses, and then disembarked, 12 of them. were arrested, while 12 managed to escape.
