Bomb hoax thats no Joke

You may have seen in the News recently about the three guys who were arrested on a flight to Dubai. It must have been a shock to the system to them (good) but also to the other passengers who were delayed (bad). The lady of the Villa and I had something similar happen on a flight to Spain.

We had an afternoon flight from Liverpool and we were just about to sit on the plane when we had to get off. Some idiot on our incoming flight decided to leave a note to the effect there was a bomb on the plane and an oncoming passenger (i.e. one of us) was going to detonate it.

It being a Ryanair flight obviously there was no record of who sat on that seat and by the time the staff came across the letter all incoming flight passengers were well on their way out of the airport. The effect on us was a cancelled flight (obviously) but also we all had to be held in a secure area in the airport for 5 hours whilst they did background checks on all passengers to see if there was anyone on their lists!

This all wouldn’t have been so bad but the airport decided not to tell us the truth about the situation and kept spinning us the “story” that the weather was bad. This was not true as all other flights were happily landing and taking off around us!!

Anyway, we finally got on our way the following morning – luckily our apartment in the UK isn’t far from the airport so it was a taxi ride back after they finally let us go. Others less fortunate spent a cold night at the airport. The people in Spain waiting for our flight were also affected. All because of a stupid prank.

Next day the plane was still late by an hour as they would not let us use the original plane and we had to wait for another to come in.