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Old 9th Nov 2002, 15:01
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Found this on another forum dated 8th November - has anyone else heard about this 'incident'? (Spelling uncorrected)

I just thought I would share with you my interesting experience this evening.
I am a frequent traveller with xxx commuting to Belfast Aldergrove,
Edinburgh and Glasgow a couple of times a month and over the past 12 months
have never experienced any problems what so ever, however tonight was very
different.

We took of from Belfast as normal 35 min journey back into Liverpool. On
approach into Liverpool the "fun" started, it was very bumpy and the plane
was swaying from left to write (quite concerning). The pilot then came over
the intercom stating "could you switch your mobile phone off". The plane
then made a sharp turn to the right, I honestly thought the pilot was going
to roll the aircraft however he seemed to straighten the aircraft up and
managed to land. When we landed the pilot said "please stay seated when we
reach the terminal building and the engines have been switched off there
is something I need to tell you". Anyway to cut a very long story short he
told us that we had encountered a serious incident, we just missed the power
station hence the sharp turn to the right. He then came out of the cockpit
left the plane for a couple of minutes then re entered with 2 police officers,
they went straight to the culprit who had turned the phone on and arrested
him (I have not got a clue how they new it was him)..................what
an idiot!!!!
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