Nature's call led to plane arrest

A MAJOR security alert at Galway Airport last Sunday, in the end had a very simple explanation . . . it was all caused by the 'call of nature’.Onlookers at Galway Airport were shocked last Sunday night to see a large number of Gardai arrive at the terminal building, just as a routine flight from Manchester was due to touch down around 10pm. However at that very time, one unfortunate male passenger was in a 'bad way’ to go to the toilet . . . only to then hear the news from the crew that there were landing problems because of fog.Eventually the flight was diverted to Shannon but the passenger was 'under so much pressure’ that he could wait no longer – he undid his seat belt and went to the toilet at the rear of the plane. At that point the crew raised a routine security alert. The middle aged passenger from the East Galway area, who...