Israeli flight to Turkey delayed after aircraft crash pictures despatched to passengers’ telephones
A flight to Turkey from Ben Gurion Airport was delayed on Friday and 10 passengers had been eliminated after vacationers obtained pictures of aircraft crashes and threatening messages on their Apple gadgets.
One of many pictures despatched to passengers on the Pegasus Airways flight was a picture of the 2009 Hudson River aircraft crash in New York, and was captioned, “I want all of us will die,” in Arabic, in accordance with photographs supplied by the Israel Airports Authority (IAA).
“The suspect and one other 9 vacationers had been faraway from the flight per the request of the airline firm and the police,” the IAA spokesperson stated in an announcement.
“The passengers had been taken in for questioning at Ben Gurion Airport,” the IAA added.
“Individuals had been in a panic after they noticed the pictures of the crashed aircraft and had been very frightened. We turned to the flight attendants and so they took care of it,” Channel 12 quoted a passenger telling police.
The pictures had been disseminated through Apple’s AirDrop service, which allows file-sharing on gadgets in shut proximity.
A picture of a aircraft crash despatched to passengers onboard a Tel Aviv flight to Istanbul on January 13, 2023. (Israel Airports Authority)
The flight departed solely after passengers’ baggage was checked, the Ynet information web site reported.
In the same incident in November, a Pegasus Air flight to Turkey from Ben Gurion Airport was delayed after passengers obtained threatening movies on their cell telephones. One passenger was detained in connection to the affair.
In Could, a flight was delayed after a number of passengers discovered pictures of aircraft crashes had been despatched to their cell telephones. Numerous passengers had been later arrested.
Flights to Venice and Dubai from Tel Aviv additionally noticed comparable incidents.
Occasions of Israel workers contributed to this report.
