Spanish airline at centre of mistaken hijack claim
An airliner was at the centre of a mistaken hijack alert today after being escorted in to land by two military fighters.
Initially it was thought the plane had been taken over en route from Malaga in Spain to Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport.
The plane, said to be from airline Vueling, was escorted to Schiphol by two F16 fighter jets scrambled from the Netherlands.
But later reports said there had been a communications mix-up and the airliner had not been hijacked.
Earlier today, part of the airport was evacuated after workers unearthed a suspected Second World War bomb near its main terminal building.
