Passengers join police to subdue airport terrorists

'His whole body seemed to be on fire… I knocked him down'
JEREMY WATSON AND MURDO MACLEOD

IT WAS a routine afternoon at Glasgow Airport with hundreds of families and other passengers preparing to fly off to the sun at the start of the summer holidays. Others were returning to Scotland from abroad, bemoaning the torrential rain that greeted their arrival.

But at 3.15pm yesterday, shockwaves spread through the main terminal as a Cherokee Jeep crashed in through the main doors and burst into flames.

Dramatic mobile phone footage captured the moment of horror as a fireball erupted onto the pavement outside the building.

To many of the hundreds of passengers queuing for check-in, it appeared that the airport was under terrorist attack.

There were astonishing stories of members of the public and taxi marshals grappling the driver, whose clothes were on fire, to the ground. There were reports of the two men in the vehicle punching police officers, throwing petrol bombs around and spilling more petrol around the car and setting light to it.

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