This appears to becoming a new trend.
http://www.cetusnews.com/news/Four-A...SZhFusoB-.html
Four Albanian migrants are caught trying to FLY into Britain on a light aircraft from Calais in what is believed to be the first case of its kind
The four, including two women and a child, were arrested along with the British pilot and two suspected British people smugglers as the plane prepared to take off near the northern port of Calais.
Four Albanian migrants tried to fly from France to Britain in a light aircraft, in what is believed to be a first, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
The four, including two women and a child, were arrested along with the British pilot and two suspected British people smugglers as the plane prepared to take off from an airfield in Marck, near the northern port of Calais.
Calais is a springboard for migrants attempting to cross the Channel to Britain, normally by stowing away on trucks that board ferries.
Prosecutors said they had no record of a previous attempt to reach Britain in a private aircraft.
'It is the first time that the Boulogne prosecutor's office has been called in to investigate an attempt to smuggle migrants by air,' the prosecutors' office in Boulogne, near Calais, said.
The plane was still on the ground and the pilot was at the controls although the migrants had not boarded when the arrests took place.
The pilot and the people smugglers remain in custody and could face charges of 'helping undocumented foreigners as part of an organised group'.
'We do not yet have a full profile of the pilot. Investigators are waiting for British authorities to send information,' the prosecutor's office added.
Another British light aircraft was intercepted just a couple of weeks trying to smuggle 11 Albanians in to the UK.
Dutch police officers and the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee have prevented the smuggling of 11 Albanian adults and 3 young children between Belgium and England. According to a police statement its the first time in the Netherlands that an aircraft is used in an attempt to smuggle people.
Earlier that day an observation team at Teuge Airport witnessed how the two English pilots prepared the aircraft, a Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain registered G-OETV for a flight through Belgium (the Belgian airport has not been disclosed) and presumably England as destination. Both English pilots were arrested at Teuge Airport.
http://www.pprune.org/private-flying...an-people.html