A 16-year-old’s alleged joke about a bomb in his aunt’s hand luggage led to a life ban for him and his family from UK airline bmibaby.

Ryan Sherwin was about to board a flight from Manchester to Malaga in Spain this week with his mother, aunt and cousin.

But after he joked that his aunt’s luggage contained a bomb, he was led away by armed police for questioning before being released.

Sherwin and his mother were denied access to the flight and banned from all future bmibaby flights.

Airline bans family for life after bomb joke source