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| Bomb hoax sparked by woman running late for flight |
| 2004-06-12 |
| A US woman and a British man are in custody after calling in a bomb threat to delay her flight to London because she needed time to find her passport, prosecutors said on Wednesday. Hatice Ceylan, an 18-year-old New Jersey high school student, agreed with Ilyas Savas, 33, of London, to call the Embassy Suites hotel near Philadelphia International Airport early on the morning of June 2 to say there were bombs on the flights she was due to take that day to London from Philadelphia via Boston. Both flights were delayed and the passengers taken off while the planes were searched. Ceylan and Savas are charged with calling in a false bomb threat to an airline and each face a maximum prison sentence of 10 years and a US$500,000 ($806,000) fine. The two appeared in court on Tuesday and Ceylan has another hearing on Thursday. Ceylan had bought non-refundable tickets to London and then realised her passport was locked in a building to which she had no access, according to court documents. She was unable to retrieve her passport and never flew to London. Savas, who is married with two children, called in the bomb threat from England and then flew to Philadelphia. He and Ceylan were arrested on June 4 as they attempted to redeem the tickets she had been unable to use two days earlier. Ceylan and Savas were both born in Turkey. Ceylan is a citizen of the United States and Savas is a British citizen. Ceylan was due to be married to another Turkish man in a union arranged by her parents, said David Kozlow, an attorney for Savas. Kozlow said it was unclear whether there was a romantic relationship between the two defendants. |
| Posted by:Super Hose |
| #1 Ceylan was due to be married to another Turkish man in a union arranged by her parents Well that explains alot. |
| Posted by: Charles 2004-06-12 2:29:04 PM |