Plane passengers detained in phones scare

A US airliner bound for India was diverted to Amsterdam under escort of two Dutch F-16 jet fighters, after air marshals and the crew grew suspicious of several passengers they saw exchanging mobile phones as the plane was taking off.

Plane passengers detained in phones scare

A US airliner bound for India was diverted to Amsterdam under escort of two Dutch F-16 jet fighters, after air marshals and the crew grew suspicious of several passengers they saw exchanging mobile phones as the plane was taking off.

Dutch police said they arrested 12 passengers after the Northwest Airlines DC-10 plane turned back over German airspace, but declined to disclose their nationalities or the nature of the suspicions against them.

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