I think everyone is missing something here, if this was a full scale bomb warning then to the best of my knowlage there is no way on earth they could have disembarked all the pax, checked them, all the luggage, cargo and had the aircraft back in the air in 2hrs 36 minutes, not even mentioning that after 1 hr of the deck the towed it to gate and let a fully fuelled Dragonair 747 taxi within 100 yards of a aircraft with a suspected bomb on ??.
Also if it were a full scale bomb warning, then why did they bring it into Manchester overflying heavily populated areas, the procedure is to take it into STN where it can be brought in over maily countryside.
Also the fact that with previous diverts (Olympic in STN) the news crews were all over the story.
Something amiss here, but despite my attempts to find out what I have managed to turn up nowt!!
Anyone got one of those light shedding machines handy ???