Manchester Police have arrested a man on suspicion of making a hoax bomb threat after a plane was escorted into the city’s airport by an RAF fighter jet according to reports in Sky news.

The emergency came when the pilot of Qatar Airways flight QR23 from Doha to Manchester reported concerns about a possible device. It landed safely. 

Josh Hartley, who boarded the plane at Doha, said: “The flight was pretty calm all the way through, but some people are shaken up, quite a few. It was scary.