Singapore terror scare cover-up

Subject: Singapore terror scare cover-up Fri Mar 07, 2008 10:55 pm

An Australian aboard a plane intercepted by fighter jets in Singapore says the dramatic incident was the result of lies told by someone in Thailand angry at being denied a bribe.

Singapore scrambled F-16 fighter jets to intercept a Cessna 208, flown by Broome pilot Rhys Thomas, on January 22, saying it had not registered a flight plan.

The Australian-registered Cessna, en route from Thailand to Australia, was then escorted to land at Singapore's Changi Airport.

Commercial airspace over the airport was locked down for 50 minutes, forcing at least 16 aircraft to circle, delaying arrivals and departures and costing airlines thousands of dollars in fuel.

Mr Thomas was charged with flying an aircraft without a certificate of airworthiness and was granted bail.

His passenger, Darren Johnson, an engineer for Horizontal Falls Adventure Tours in the Kimberley, said the real facts of the matter had been covered up.

"The real reason our aircraft was assessed as a security threat by Singapore is that someone deliberately made false statements about our aircraft to Singapore authorities whilst we were in flight," Mr Johnson said.

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Singapore terror scare cover-up

Singapore terror scare cover-up

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