Typhoon fighter jets scrambled to escort Pakistani plane to London airport

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British police arrested two men on a Pakistan International Airlines plane after fighter jets were scrambled to escort it to Stansted Airport, just outside London, on Friday following an "incident".

Police said the men were detained on suspicion of endangering an aircraft which was carrying 300 passengers from the Pakistani city of Lahore to Manchester in northwest England.

The incident was not believed to be terrorism-related. An airline source told AFP the incident had stemmed from a family row on board.

"There was a family of eight to 10 people on the plane and they were quarrelling among each other," a PIA source said.

"When PIA staff approached them and asked them to calm down, they told them to go away otherwise they would blow up the plane.

"PIA staff became scared and they raised the alarm to avoid any untoward situation."

A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence said that Typhoon jets had been launched from a Royal Air Force base after the incident was signalled by the plane's crew, shortly before the plane was due to land in Manchester at 1230 GMT.

By strange coincidence, the PIA plane diverted to Stansted was the very same plane on the very same route -- Lahore to Manchester -- that was diverted to Stansted in September 2011 due to a bomb scare.