‘On My Way to Blow Up the Plane’: Teen Faces Huge Fine After Joke Leads to Fighter Jets Scrambling
In the summer of 2022, 18-year-old Aditya Verma was boarding a flight to Spain at London's Gatwick Airport when he sent a message to his friend on Snapchat: On my way to blow up the plane (I'm a member of the Taliban)." As you might expect, the message was a joke. Unfortunately, the kid happened to be using the...