Yes, it has come to this:
A flight from Malaga to Manchester was delayed this weekend because passengers refused to travel with people they regarded as behaving suspiciously.Err, sorry? Can you provide a bit more detail?
A passenger on the flight, Heath Schofield, explained the suspicions. "It was a return holiday flight, full of people in flip-flops and shorts. There were just two people in the whole crowd who looked like they didn't belong there."
"Our daughter noticed a couple of guys that were perhaps acting a bit strange. They went to the front of the queue, went to the back of the queue, and then they went and sat down by themselves."
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His wife said: "We still don't know what was said, or whether it was anything to be alarmed about."
She said: "A lot of mums were trying to calm the children down - they were getting quite panicky because of what they'd seen on the telly.
"It became apparent that the reason that some of the people didn't board the plane was because somebody had overheard the gentlemen in question speaking - I think it was Arabic."
