‘Mystery plane’ landing confirmed

AT midnight on an autumn night two years ago, a mystery Boeing passenger plane with seven people carrying US passports touched down at a little-used airport deep in the pine forests of northeastern Poland, officials say.

Confirmation of the mysterious arrival comes after a human rights group said evidence pointed to Szczytno-Szymany airport as a CIA transfer site for al-Qaida prisoners.

Airport officials and border guards said the plane landed at the former military base on September 22, 2003 the date Human Rights Watch said a Boeing 737 that was part of the prisoner transfer scheme was at the airport.