'Panic' for Vueling passengers when police gun goes off
Tuesday, August 23, 2016 @ 5:03 PM
Passengers panicked on a Vueling flight when a police officer's gun accidentally went off, causing them to fear a terrorist attack.
The aircraft was boarding at Ibiza airport, ready to take off for Madrid, when several on-duty officers – who were travelling on the flight – passed each other their regulation handguns.
One of these went off unintentionally, and the bullet hit the officer's suitcase, absorbing the impact.
State Administration leader for the island, Roger Sales, explains that it is standard procedure for police officers to carry their guns in the cabin when flying as part of the course of their duty, and they have tight procedures for boarding these for security reasons.
Sales insists that 'nothing worthy of mention happened' and that the officers were acting entirely in keeping with normal protocol.
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