Attack on Airliner Foiled, Newspaper Says
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Saudi security forces have seized light planes packed with explosives near Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport, foiling a plot by suicide pilots to blow up an airliner on the runway, a British newspaper said.
Two pilots apparently intended to crash their light planes into a Western jet as it taxied on the tarmac, the Mail on Sunday quoted Patrick Mercer, homeland security policy chief for Britain’s opposition Conservative Party, as saying.
The two pilots were among several people arrested after the planes were found some time in the last few weeks, the paper said.
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