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‘Death to Trump’: Easyjet flight to Scotland diverted after shocking bomb threat by passenger
The viral purported footage shows a man standing in the aisle of the plane and shouting “death to America” and “death to Trump.
An Easyjet flight to Scotland from England's Luton was diverted on Sunday after a passenger threatened to bomb the plane. A purported video of the incident also went viral on social media, showing the man shouting “Allahu Akbar” before other passengers take hold of him.
The viral footage shows a man standing in the aisle of the plane with a bomb threat and shouting “death to America” and “death to Trump. Following this, he starts shouting “Allahu Akbar” (an Arabic phrase meaning god is great). Other passengers are then seen tackling him to the floor of the plane.
As the camera pans around, other passengers can be seen shocked and scared. HT could not independently verify the authenticity of the video.
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This month, an Indian origin man aged 21 was also arrested in Miami after he allegedly attacked the fellow passengers on Frontier Airlines and made disturbing statements aboard the flight.
The man named Ishaan Sharma began acting strangely, with mocking laughs and making statements like “‘you punt, mortal man, if you challenge me, it will result in your death.” Sharma was later arrested and charged with battery upon landing in Miami.
In a similar incident earlier in July 2016, a 38-year-old man was sentenced to ten weeks in prison for yelling “Allahu Akbar” onboard a Birmingham-bound flight, India Today reported.
As per the report, the man named Shehraz Sarwar shouted Allahu Akbar repeatedly and also shouted ‘boom’ as the plane was about to land. The chanting was followed by a turbulent landing, which scared many passengers.
Meanwhile, the report quoted Sarwar's saying that he was upset after attending his grandmother's funeral in Pakistan and had also not taken his medication. Ultimately, Sarwar was sentenced to 10 weeks imprisonment.
