What Can Possibly Be Going Off?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4203060/Passenger-52-arrested-flight-escorted.html

Airliner escorted to Stansted Airport by RAF fighter jet, passenger arrested for fraud, anonymous security threat' was made via a phone call, and the Daily Mail refuses to take comments??????????

/// Essex Police said the incident is 'not believed to be a hijack situation or terror matter'. ///

It is not believed that the arrested man had any involvement in the cause of the diversion.

[sp1814]

Perhaps it's something to do with reporting restrictions?

[chelle7272]

I thought the plane being diverted was unrelated to this arrest?

[Baldric]

Possibly because it was a flight from Pakistan might have had some bearing on it along with the 'anonymous security threat'

[ToraToraTora]

the RAF get bored unless they can be "scrambled" now and again!

[ummmm]

Lots of maybes. He was arrested for fraud by false representation. Maybe he was flying on a false passport and maybe someone grassed him up.

Maybe.

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

/// Maybe he was flying on a false passport and maybe someone grassed him up. ///

Do you think that would be enough to scrabble RAF fighter jets and to divert the plane, which was met by several fire engines and a number of ambulances waiting on the ground at Stansted?

[youngmafbog]

Well yes it could be AOG, if the authorities had some intelligence on the real identity for instance.

Clearly something was going on here and as I suspect it will be related to a matter of National seucurity I doubt we will ever know. Or need to know.

[Mamyalynne]

Without knowing the contents of the anonymous phone call that prompted the scramble and diversion it is hard to comment.