Airline bans family for bomb joke
Armed police were called to question the teenager
A teenager who joked his aunt was carrying a bomb in her luggage has earned his family a life ban from airline bmibaby.
Ryan Sherwin, 16, of Ashton-in-Makerfield, Greater Manchester, was due to fly to Spain from Manchester Airport on Thursday with his mother, aunt and cousin.
As he walked through security however, he joked that there was a bomb in his aunt’s bag.
The boy was taken away by armed police and questioned but was later released.
He and his mother Sue were then kicked off flight WW3113 and banned from all bmibaby flights.
A statement from the airline said: “Bmibaby can confirm that two passengers were refused carriage yesterday from Manchester to Malaga following a bomb threat.
“Armed police were called to the passengers who were then taken away for questioning.
“Incidents such as this are taken very seriously and as a result bmibaby will not be carrying the passengers on any of its services in future
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December 18, 2004 at 1:40 pm