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A cell phone left in the onboard toilet sparked a Royal Air Force operation on a Laudamotion (Ryanair Austria) flight from Vienna to London Stansted on Sunday. Two British military aircraft escorted the passenger plane to the arrival airport. After the landing, two men were temporarily arrested on suspicion of terrorism, but were released on Monday.
Laudamotion’s Airbus A320 departed at 6:35 pm from Vienna Airport in Schwechat with a delay of 20 minutes and landed in Stansted as scheduled. According to eyewitnesses, most of the passengers may not have noticed the interceptors. However, after landing, the machine remained on the runway for about an hour until the police came on board and picked up two men who neither resisted nor protested their arrest.
A package containing battery-like items was found, according to an APA employee whose London-living family members were aboard the FR7364 on its flight home. The crew were unable to decipher a letter lying there and then notified the English authorities, who sent the military aircraft as escorts. Only after the arrests did the crew inform the passengers about the find and the measures taken as a result.
Meanwhile, it became known that the object left in the onboard toilet was a cell phone. The crew called the mobile phone a “suspicious item”.
The two arrested passengers were a 34-year-old man from Kuwait and a 48-year-old man from Italy, as British media reported online Monday. The men were initially said to be being investigated on suspicion of terrorism. They were released that afternoon after it was determined that the item found did not pose a threat. The men are not suspected of having committed crimes, police said, according to a BBC online report.
Those: APA
