Nearly 30 migrants flee plane at Barcelona airport after female passenger sparks emergency landing

Nearly 30 migrants fled a plane at Barcelona’s El Prat airport after a woman on board forced it to make an emergency landing by pretending she was going into labour.

The drama occurred around 4.30am this morning after the aircraft made its unscheduled stop en route from the Moroccan city of Casablanca to Istanbul in Turkey.

Twenty-seven passengers went to escape from the plane as she was escorted away.

At the last count 14 had been located and arrested including the unnamed woman who claimed her waters had broken after a doctor examined her and found no evidence she was pregnant. Five of them reportedly agreed to return to the plane voluntarily

The company operating Flight PC652 has been identified as Pegasus Airlines.

The incident represents a repeat of one last November when more than 20 passengers fled a plane from Casablanca to Istanbul after it made an emergency landing at Palma Airport in Majorca after a Moroccan on board faked a diabetic coma.

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Nearly 30 migrants fled a plane at Barcelona’s El Prat airport after a woman on board forced it to make an emergency landing by pretending she was going into labour. Pictured: File image of a plane landing at El Prat international airport in Barcelona, Spain