Passenger with penknives held on jet

Spanish police boarded a plane bound for England and removed a passenger who was later found to have two penknives in his possession, news reports said today.

The passenger, identified only by his initials EGD, from Chile, was taken off the easyJet plane in Madrid last night after the captain halted takeoff when the passenger started talking aloud about the end of the world, the national news agency Efe said.