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Fake emergency diverts plane to Mallorca
Palma airport, on the Spanish holiday island of Mallorca, was forced to close for nearly four hours on Friday night when several passengers fled a plane that had made an emergency landing, airport authorities said.
An Air Arabia Maroc plane from Casablanca to Istanbul had been diverted to Palma de Mallorca due to an apparent medical emergency.
Passengers stormed the tarmac
When an ambulance arrived to take the allegedly ill passenger — who was reported to have fallen unconscious due to diabetes — to the hospital, he and around 20 passengers fled the plane and ran onto the tarmac.
Esperas en llegada a &maca=en-ONEINDIA_ENG_option2-33211-xml-msn#Palma y posibles desvíos. Tráfico con destino a ese aeropuerto parado por seguridad. Al parecer ha aterrizado un vuelo y podría haber pasajeros de dicho vuelo deambulando por pistas y rodadura. #SafetyFirst pic.twitter.com/U07VBHMwzO
— 😷Controladores Aéreos 🇪🇸 (@controladores) November 5, 2021
Authorities believe the diversion was a deliberate attempt to help people to illegally enter Spain, the El Pais newspaper reported.
At least five people were arrested, including the passenger who raised the alarm. He was taken to the hospital and found to be medically fit.
He was later held on suspicion of "assisting in illegal immigration."
His companion disappeared upon arrival at the hospital.
Investigators believe the remaining escapees managed to climb over the airport perimeter fence and into the island.
Dozens of planes diverted, delayed
Airport operator Aena said 13 arriving planes were diverted, including to nearby Ibiza airport. Sixteen departing planes were grounded.
The airport reopened around midnight Friday after being closed for about four hours.
📢 El &maca=en-ONEINDIA_ENG_option2-33211-xml-msn#Aeropuerto de #Palma de #Mallorca retoma la operativa.
— Aena (@aena) November 5, 2021
➡️ Vuelos de llegada desviados: 13
- 5 a JT #Barcelona-#ElPrat
- 4 a #Ibiza
- 2 a #Menorca
- 1 a AS #Madrid-#Barajas
- 1 a #Valencia https://t.co/w0YnXIjJDQ
Mallorca is the largest of the Balearic islands that sit in the Mediterranean off mainland Spain's eastern coast.
The island is hugely popular with European tourists and Palma airport is one of the busiest in Spain.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, it was used by up to 28 million passengers a year.
Spain is one of the countries that bears the brunt of illegal migration to Europe from Africa and the Middle East.
Its Ceuta and Melilla exclaves in north Africa regularly experience stormings of their border fences by large numbers of migrants and refugees.
Spain's Canary islands, in the Atlantic Ocean, have also seen an increase in migrant arrivals by boat.
With material from AFP news agency
Source: DW
