Nearly 30 migrants flee plane at Barcelona airport after female passenger sparks emergency landing by pretending she was going into labour during flight from Morocco
- Twenty-seven passengers fled a plane at Barcelona’s El Prat airport this morning
- Woman pretended she was in labour so plane would make emergency landing
- The plane had been en route from the Moroccan city of Casablanca to Istanbul
Nearly 30 migrants fled a plane at Barcelona’s El Prat airport after a woman on board forced it to make an emergency landing by pretending she was going into labour.
The drama occurred around 4.30am this morning after the aircraft made its unscheduled stop en route from the Moroccan city of Casablanca to Istanbul in Turkey.
As flight attendants helped the woman. who claimed her waters had broken, disembark, a group of 28 migrants fled the plane and ran onto the runway.
At the last count 14 had been located and arrested including the unnamed woman after a doctor examined her and found no evidence she was pregnant.
Nearly 30 migrants fled a plane at Barcelona’s El Prat airport after a woman on board forced it to make an emergency landing by pretending she was going into labour. Pictured: File image of a plane landing at El Prat international airport in Barcelona, Spain
Five of them reportedly agreed to return to the plane voluntarily and police are scrambling to find the other 11 migrants who fled.
The company operating Flight PC652, which had 228 passengers onboard, has been identified as Pegasus Airlines.
The incident represents a repeat of one last November when more than 20 passengers fled a plane from Casablanca to Istanbul after it made an emergency landing at Palma Airport in Majorca after a Moroccan on board faked a diabetic coma.