UPDATE: Pakistani plane suspects remanded in custody after court appearance. Tayyab Subhani and Mohammed Safdar refused bail over charges of endangering an aircraft, which carries a life sentence. Two men who allegedly threatened to blow up an aeroplane flying with 308 passengers from Lahore to Manchester, were remanded in custody on Sunday.
Taxi driver and supermarket worker Tayyab Subhani, 30, and restaurant worker Mohammed Safdar, 41, appeared at Chelmsford magistrates court charged with endangering an aircraft. The defendants have been charged with making threats that the "crew and passengers would be killed and the aircraft blown up before landing, which was false, misleading or deceptive".