Natural profiling

If governments and airlines continue to refuse to do it, passengers will end up doing it themselves. And this kind of news is not coming too soon.

If passengers felt secure - and no, forbidding deodorants and Chanel perfume onboard isn't making us secure - such incidents, whether justified or not, would not happen.

British holidaymakers staged an unprecedented mutiny - refusing to allow their flight to take off until two men they feared were terrorists were forcibly removed.

The extraordinary scenes happened after some of the 150 passengers on a Malaga-Manchester flight overheard two men of Asian appearance apparently talking Arabic.

Passengers told cabin crew they feared for their safety and demanded police action. Some stormed off the Monarch Airlines Airbus A320 minutes before it was due to leave the Costa del Sol at 3am. Others waiting for Flight ZB 613 in the departure lounge refused to board it.