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Rabat – Times of Malta reported on Wednesday that four men jumped from the Turkish Airlines plane upon an emergency landing triggered by a Moroccan passenger who claimed he was feeling sick.
As the plane crew were busy retrieving the passenger’s suitcase, four other passengers jumped out from the plane’s rear door, the report said.
Two of the passengers who escaped the plane were arrested while a manhunt was launched to arrest the two other suspects.
The Moroccan passenger who reported feeling sick was transferred to a hospital, where he is undergoing medical treatment while under arrest.
It is unclear whether all the other passengers were Moroccans.
This is not the first time a similar incident happened.
In May 2024, a group of 17 young Moroccans, expelled from Turkeiye attempted to flee a flight that made an emergency landing in Italy.
The flight was operated by Air Arabia Maroc and was en route from Istanbul to Tangier.
The emergency landing came as a passenger “feigned a heart attack” on the flight.
“This was the moment they attempted to flee the aircraft, but they were intercepted by the police,” LaRazon reported at the time.
A similar incident also took place in 2021, when 24 people, all Moroccans except for one passenger, fled an Air Arabia flight that was en route to Turkiye.
The passengers created an unprecedented scene of attempted irregular migration that many reports have since described as the “great escape.”
