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So, what was the story today then, gib runway closed, hearing bomb scare, local police stopped a Hercules taking off? What's the real story?

On different "Gib" related topic, I was interested to read that Meteorological Sqn Halifaxes operated from Gib into the 50s - and we did not preserve one! I had thought them all chopped up at the end of the war

It was an A400; turf war between Gib and MOD police. Person on board wanted for questioning by both was eventually left in Gib.

Primacy of civilian police powers always wins, well, usually

Wow. Literally caught between a rock & a hard place!!!

Wonder if this will be picked up by UK media. The computer seizure is interesting and suggests something other than the not unusual D&D.

Interesting that the MOD were less than entirely cooperative with the RGP.

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There was a guy in the Johannesburg branch of the RAFA who was a National Service Pilot on the Gib Halifax's. Circa 1948 I believe.

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I was interested to read that Meteorological Sqn Halifaxes operated from Gib into the 50s

The last Halifaxes to be operated by the RAF. The were disbanded shortly after 202 Sqn replaced its Halifaxes with Hastings at Aldergrove.

Bottom line: Gibraltar 1 MoD 0

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Interesting that the MOD were less than entirely cooperative with the RGP.

If you are on board a military aircraft are you not in effect then on sovereign territory?

As for the none cooperation, it's probably because they realised they would have to pay rates or whatever they are now for his extended stay.

Aren't you on sovereign territory in Gib or has that changed since I was living there in 1969?

Found it,

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2.2.2 International Status. Military aircraft are "state aircraft" within the
meaning of the Convention on International Civil Aviation of 1944 (the
"Chicago Convention"), and, like warships, enjoy sovereign immunity from
foreign search and inspection. Subject to the right of transit passage, archipelagic
sea lanes passage, and entry in distress (see paragraph 2.5.1), state aircraft may not
enter national airspace (see paragraph 1.8i or land in the sovereign territory of
another nation without its authorization. 5 Foreign officials may not board the aircraft without the consent of the aircraft commander. Should the aircraft
commander fail to certify compliance with local customs, immigration or
quarantine requirements, the aircraft may be directed to leave the territory and
national airspace of that nation immediately.16

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...46496531,d.ZGg

(dated 8 Mar 1983) But I wouldn't have thought it had changed, so surely the Gibbo plods had no jurisdiction. By the fact they possibly removed him under duress, IE they prevented the aircraft departing, and possibly hence broke the law in doing so, would that not effect any case they may have against him?

That might apply if the aeroplane had been on foreign soil, but isn't Gibraltar British soil?

PDR

yes, but doesn't Gibraltar as a territory produce and oversee its own laws?

Possibly, but we would need a legal expert (which I am certainly not) to advise what features would be required for the aeroplane to "qualify" as a non-Gibratar jurisdiction for arrest purposes.

To be honest it just sounds like a willy-waviung contest between civil and military authorities. If so the owners of the waving willies (on both sides) should be sent to bed with no supper and the matter should be quietly laid to rest IMHO.

PDR

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If you are on board a military aircraft are you not in effect then on sovereign territory

No.

The point was tested. Few years back when an Israeli general was onboard an aircraft at Heathrow and the plods were waiting to arrest him when he disembarked. The crew got word and he remained on board, the plods stayed outside and he went home on the return flight.

The judge who issued the warrant subsequently then ripped several new arseholes in the plods for their failure to board and arrest.

Keeping the peace? The El Al flight and the Israeli army officer | The Independent

The El Al aircraft was just a regular passenger service and was not a 'State Aircraft'.