Spanish police investigating the disappearance of passengers from a plane after an emergency landing believe it was a set up.
The Air Arabia flight from Morocco to Turkey was forced to land in Mallorca, Spain after the captain was alerted to a medical emergency on board.
Video taken on the flight shows a number of passengers pushing past authorities on the plane once the it was parked on the tarmac. Once off the aircraft, a group of them can then be seen running off.
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Passengers fleeing on board a Moroccan plane bound for Turkey, after making an emergency landing in the city of "Palma" on the Spanish island of Mallorca, due to a medical emergency that was later proven to be false. pic.twitter.com/I3nXMNf4E8— World News (@ne23614114) November 6, 2021
The man claiming to have suffered a medical event was taken to hospital but was found to be alive and well, with no health issues.
Eleven passengers have been arrested, but another 12 have disappeared and are on the run.
At first police believed it was an opportunistic crime, but have since come across a now deleted Facebook ad in which the poster called for 40 people to help him with a plan to force the emergency landing of a plane through a fake illness to get into Spain.
