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The updated news stated they were making bomb threats. 

RAF warplanes were scrambled to intercept an incoming flight from Pakistan yesterday amid fears of a possible hijacking.

Two Typhoon fighter jets raced through the skies to meet the Pakistan International Airlines plane following reports two men ‘tried to get into the cockpit’.

After the captain activated an emergency signal, they escorted the airliner as it was diverted from Manchester, where it had been ten minutes from landing, to Stansted airport in Essex.

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Held: Police, some wearing forensic gear, detain a man on the tarmac

Police appear to search one of the suspects by the side of the plane at Stansted

The man also appears to be putting on a forensic suit at the scene

The incident is not thought to be terrorism-related, but in this week’s febrile atmosphere following the Woolwich atrocity the authorities were taking no chances.

Armed officers from Essex Police boarded the Boeing 777 and arrested two British men, aged 30 and 41, on suspicion of ‘endangerment of an aircraft’.

PIA Flight PK709 was carrying 297 passengers and 11 crew on the 13-hour flight from Lahore in Pakistan to Manchester.

Passenger Umari Nauman said: ‘The cabin crew informed us that basically they tried to come into the cockpit a few times and because they had been asked not to do that they got into a bit of an argument with the crew and made a few threats.’

Captain Nadeem Sufi reported to his bosses at PIA’s headquarters in Pakistan that, 30 minutes before landing, crew members told him that two passengers had threatened ‘to blow up the flight after a heated conversation’.

The captain reportedly said: ‘As soon as crew told me, I raised the alarm to air traffic control.’ He sent out what is known as a ‘squawk 7700’ – an emergency code transmitted by a radio transponder signalling the aircraft is in peril.

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