Passenger charged over Heathrow bomb threat

AN air passenger has been charged with making a bomb threat that grounded a packed jet at Heathrow Airport, police said.

Robert Fowles, 58, from Dover, Kent, is accused of making a bomb hoax and being drunk on the Dubai-bound Emirates flight on Friday night, the Metropolitan Police said.

Another man on the plane, Alexander McGinn, 48, also from Dover, has also been charged with being drunk on an aircraft.