ARCHIVED - Teen arrested for sending death threats and macabre images to passengers on Alicante flight

The 18-year-old Spaniard sent chilling messages to travellers aboard a flight from Italy to the Costa Blanca

Macabre images and death threats were sent to 147 passengers aboard a flight from Italy to Alicante sparking panic amongst everyone travelling on the plane and leading to the arrest of an 18-year-old Spaniard.

Just before the Vueling flight VY 1367 took off on July 21, mobile phones throughout the cabin pinged and passengers opened their mobile phones to find sinister messages in Amharic, a language spoken in the north of Ethiopia.

In addition to chilling death threats, an attachment contained morbid images of skulls and grisly figures from a horror movie.

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"Your family will bleed for your deeds, you will suffer eternally for your deeds," read the sinister message.

The captain immediately suspended the flight's departure from Rome's Fiumicino international airport to Alicante-Elche and contacted the authorities. The Border Police were alerted and identified an 18-year-old Spaniard on board who was arrested for causing alarm on a passenger plane after admitting to sharing the terrifying message via Apple's "Airdrop" service.

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