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Latest News Wires Britain scrambles jet after UK-bound Pakistan plane diverted

Britain scrambles jet: A British security official said the situation involving the Pakistan International Airlines flight, which carried more than 300 people, did not appear to be terror-related, but that police were still investigating

By Cassandra Vinograd and Danica KirkaAssociated Press / May 24, 2013

Paul Hackett/Reuters

Two men were arrested on suspicion of endangering an aircraft Friday after a U.K. fighter jetwas scrambled to divert their plane as it traveled from Pakistan to Britain, officials said. The incident further rattled the U.K. just days after a British soldier was brutally killed on a London street in a suspected terror attack.