A former British Airways employee has been jailed for 30 years for plotting to blow up a plane.
Rajib Karim, a 31-year-old software engineer, was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court by Mr Justice Calvert-Smith, who described him as a committed jihadist.
He said Karim, originally from Bangladesh but based in Newcastle, who was planning to use his job target BA flights to the US, had worked "incessantly" for terrorist purposes.
Karim had kept his true intentions secret from colleagues at BA. He was working for an al-Qaeda preacher based in Yemen.
He has a British wife and children, but he now faces deportation to Bangladesh.
By Linsey McNeill
