Fourteen Moroccans evaded Spanish police after they ran from a plane at Barcelona’s airport after it made an emergency landing to obtain assistance for a pregnant woman who simulated that she was about to give birth, authorities said.
The office for Spain’s government in the Catalonia region said the incident occurred when a Pegasus Airlines flight from Casablanca, Morocco, to Istanbul with 228 passengers on board requested an emergency landing at Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport. A pregnant claimed that she had gone into labor and was suffering painful contractions. After the plane landed, airport officials proceed to evacuated the woman from the plane. Taking advantage of the confusion, 27 passengers exited the aircraft without authorization and tried to flee. Police were able to stop thirteen of them, with the other fourteen managing to elude police at the airport and who still remain at large.
The woman who faked her labor pains was detained on charges of public disorder after doctors at a hospital determined that, although pregnant, she was not about to give birth. Of the 13 fleeing passengers grabbed by police, five agreed to get back on the plane and continue on to Istanbul. The other eight were deported from to Spain and put on another Pegasus flight back to Casablanca.
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