PLANE passengers were left terrified after receiving a bomb threat over their phones.
The hoax was delivered to iPhones over the Airdrop app as the aircraft landed at Gatwick.
Those with iPhones had to stay on the TUI jet for 90 minutes for police checks.
Android phone users were allowed off.
Natalie Berry, 51, who was flying home from Senegal with her partner and two daughters, said: “My ten-year-old is autistic and started panicking saying, ‘It’s not me’.
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“I don’t know who would do something like that to frighten people.”
Police said details of passengers were taken and an investigation is under way.
TUI is offering trauma support.