Man jailed for starting fire in toilet on board flight carrying 200 people

A 46-year-old man who started a fire in the toilet of a plane carrying more than 200 people, sparking a mayday call, has been jailed.

The Monarch Airbus A321 was 35,000ft (10,668m) in the air and 100 miles (160km) from the Egyptian coast when the captain was told the crew were having difficulty extinguishing the blaze in a waste paper bin.