Barcelona, Spain, Dec 7 (EFE).- Nearly 30 migrants attempted to flee a plane at Barcelona\u2019s El Prat airport on Wednesday after the aircraft made an emergency landing because a female passenger claimed she was going into labor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Turkish airline Pegasus flight traveling from Casablanca in Morocco to Istanbul landed at 4:30am to treat the woman, who turned out not to be pregnant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As she was being removed from the plane for treatment, 28 passengers fled the aircraft and ran onto the runway in an attempt to illegally enter Spanish territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Security personnel managed to apprehend 14 of the migrants \u2013 including the woman who had pretended to be pregnant \u2013, while the rest escaped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Five of those caught by the security forces were brought back to the plane, which took off again for Istanbul after the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eight of the apprehended migrants will be sent back to Morocco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The case resembles a similar incident last year when passengers on an Air Arabia Maroc flight managed to disembark and escape down the runways of the airport in Palma, Mallorca, after one person faked a diabetes medical emergency. EFE<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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