Archive for October 4th, 2009

Leeds Bradford Airport: forced to close along with other major UK airports due to Mukaty's bomb hoax

A failed asylum seeker shut down an airport and put three others on red alert with a series of hoax calls warning of suicide bomb attacks.

Salman Mukaty, 27, was trying to stop himself being deported to Pakistan after more than nine years in the UK.

He told police that 16 passengers carrying ‘suicide bomb materials’ were about to board planes in airports across the country. Read the rest of this entry »