But I really wanted to go to London

A New Jersey teenager who tried to avoid missing her flight to London by having a friend call in a bomb threat was sentenced yesterday to a year in prison. The teen’s troubles began when she misplaced her passport last spring shortly before she was scheduled to fly from Philadelphia to Boston, and then connect to a flight to London. Realizing she couldn’t recover her travel papers in time, she had a friend in England, Ilays Savas, phone a hotel at Philadelphia International Airport on the day of the flight and claim that someone was planning to stash bombs aboard both planes.

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