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Article: Man arrested at a British airport after security checks on passengers traveling from Pakistan to Canada
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- AP Worldstream
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- August 30, 2002
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Dateline: LONDON
A passenger on a flight from Pakistan to Canada was arrested Friday
during a routine security check when the plane landed in Britain for
refueling, police said.
West Midlands Police said the man was detained after the Pakistan
International Airlines flight from Islamabad to Toronto landed at
11:30 a.m. (1030 GMT) at Birmingham International Airport in central
England.
"A routine security check had taken place on the aircraft and of passengers
of a flight which had stopped at Birmingham," a force spokesman said
on customary condition of anonymity.
"As a result, one man was detained and the aircraft is now subject
to a more detailed ...