Five arrested from president’s flight
Five Maldivians were arrested from a Bangkok Airways flight on Thursday after a family of tourists complained to the crew and refused to travel on the plane. All five have since been released after the police determined that they had not endangered the airplane’s security.
02 Jan 2016, 9:00 AM
Five Maldivians were arrested from a Bangkok Airways flight on Thursday after a family of tourists complained to the crew and refused to travel on the plane.
The presence of President Abdulla Yameen and First Lady Fathmath Ibrahim on the flight was “a coincidence” and unrelated to the incident onboard the airplane, the police said in a statement.
After questioning both the tourists and the five Maldivian men, the police determined that the locals had not endangered the flight’s security.
“When it became clear that the Maldivians had not done anything that could affect the security of the flight they were released after the investigation,” the police said.
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