A supposed medical emergency aboard a flight in Europe last week forced an aircraft to land in Barcelona - but it was all apparently a pretext to allow some of the passengers to illegally enter Spain without authorisation.
Low-cost airline Pegasus was operating a flight between Morocco and Turkey, when a pregnant woman claimed she was experiencing urgent labour pains and was about to give birth imminently.
There were 228 passengers on board the flight from Casablanca to Istanbul, and the pilot requested an emergency landing at El Prat Airport.
When the aircraft hit the ground medical staff entered to evacuate the woman from the plane, and at the same time 27 other passengers exited the aircraft and "tried to flee".
13 of them were stopped by police, while the other 14 remain at large - while the woman who was thought to be in labour was detained on charges of public disorder after doctors determined that, although she was genuinely pregnant, she was not about to have a baby any time soon.
Apparently it's the second such recent incident, with another flight on the same route disrupted in November 2021 after one of the passengers appeared to be going into a diabetic coma.
That traveller was also found to be fine when admitted to hospital, with a manhunt to chase 24 passengers who fled.
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