Turkish Airlines – TC-JVL – Malta International Airport (MLA/LMML). 4-6-2017. Credit: Andrew Simpson / Flickr
The 1is January, a Turkish Airlines plane, coming from Istanbul to Marrakech, had to land urgently at Malta international airport. Taking advantage of this landing, four men escaped from the plane, reports the Maltese press.
The Malta police and armed forces then launched a manhunt. On Wednesday evening, two men were arrested, while two others remained at large.
The landing took place around 1:45 p.m., the flight having requested authorization to land in Malta following the discomfort of one of the passengers, a Moroccan national. As crew members retrieved the sick passenger’s suitcase, four people fled through the rear door of the plane, escaping onto the runway. The man, who reported feeling unwell, was taken to Mater Dei Hospital while under arrest.
After this incident, the flight resumed its route to Morocco.
As a reminder, similar incidents had already taken place in 2021 and 2022. In November 2021, around twenty passengers on a Casablanca-Istanbul flight fled during an emergency landing in Palma de Mallorca, after One of the passengers said he was suffering from a diabetic coma. The Spanish authorities then announced that the operation was a set-up, planned on a Moroccan Facebook group.
In 2022, a flight also operating from Casablanca to Istanbul, had an emergency landing in Barcelona, after a woman claimed to be in labor. Nearly 28 people tried to escape the plane.
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