Couple Delayed Plane 'with Bomb Threat'
Surely these types should be locked up and the key thrown away...
COUPLE DELAYED PLANE 'WITH BOMB THREAT'
(Sky News 10 June)
A US woman and a British man are in custody after allegedly using a bomb threat to delay her flight to London because she needed time to find her passport.
Prosecutors say Hatice Ceylan, an 18-year-old New Jersey student, agreed with Ilyas Savas, 33, of London, to set up the hoax.
It is alleged they conspired to call the Embassy Suites hotel near Philadelphia International Airport to say there were bombs on the flights she was due to take that day to London via Boston.
Both flights were delayed and the passengers were taken off while the planes were searched.
Ceylan and Savas are charged with making a false bomb threat to an airline.
They each face a maximum prison sentence of 10 years and a £300,000 fine.
According to court documents Ceylan bought non-refundable tickets to London before realising her passport was locked in a building to which she had no access.
She was unable to retrieve her passport and never flew to London.
Savas, who is married with two children, phoned the threat from England and then flew to Philadelphia. He and Ceylan were arrested on June 4 as they attempted to redeem the tickets she had been unable to use two days earlier.
Ceylan and Savas were both born in Turkey. Ceylan is a citizen of the United States and Savas is a British citizen.
Ceylan was due to be married to another Turkish man in a union arranged by her parents, said David Kozlow, an attorney for Savas.