Teenage girl, 15, who was flying to join Islamist fighters in Syria was stopped by police while the plane was on the runway at Heathrow seconds before take off

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File photo dated 17/12/13 of a plane preparing to take off at Gatwick Airport as the next steps in the work to decide on future UK runway capacity are due to be outlined by the head of the Whitehall-appointed Airports Commission. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Thursday January 16, 2014. Chaired by former Financial Services Authority chief Sir Howard Davies, the commission has already shortlisted Heathrow and Gatwick Airports as possible sites for a new runway by 2030. At a major aviation conference in London, Sir Howard will speak about the commission's work towards a definite runway recommendation - to be made in a final report in summer 2015. Also speaking at the conference, is London Mayor Boris Johnson's aviation adviser Daniel Moylan. Mr Johnson is bitterly opposed to a new, third runway at Heathrow and favours, instead, a brand-new airport in the Thames Estuary - a scheme dubbed "Boris Island". See PA story TRANSPORT Airports. Photo credit should read: Gareth Fuller/PA Wi
The young girl had secretly saved up to buy a ticket from London to Istanbul and planned to continue her journey through Turkey and over the border into Syria.

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