The Guardia Civil has arrested two British men, aged 19 and 20, in the Reina Sofía Airport in Tenerife, after they caused a false alarm saying that they were carrying a bomb in their hand luggage. They have been named as Aidam-Paul Jenvis and Mathan-Levi Tripicn. It happened at 12.25 on Friday afternoon when Gran Canaria air traffic control got a message from the plane requesting priority landing at Tenerife Sur. Emergency protocols were put into action. The 802 squadron of the SAR search and rescue service was put on alert, and the local and general Canaries police were alerted with Tedax explosives experts from the Guardia Civil. After landing the Boeing 757-200 was a Thomas Cook flight from Manchester taxied to gate 26. It was 1.20pm when the plane captain requested the presence of the Guardia Civil, and the two men were arrested on the plane. A large Guardia took part in the operation and it appears that the two Britons were then frightened and one of them started crying, realising the size of the problem they had created. The plane was then disembarked and the two men taken into the Reina Sofia airport.
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