Man due to stand trial for allegedly locking himself inside aeroplane cockpit at Heathrow

Louis Costa, 38, has denied the charges following the security breach at Heathrow Airport

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15:20, 8 MAR 2016

The trial will take place after an intruder locked himself inside a British Airways plane at Heathrow Airport (Image: Nick Morrish/British Airways)

A man is set to stand trial for allegedly breaching security and locking himself inside the cockpit of a British Airways plane at Heathrow Airport.

Louis Costa, 38, of Stonehill Road, Hounslow , entered a not guilty plea at an initial hearing at Uxbridge Magistrates Court on Monday (March 7).

He has been remanded on conditional bail until March 22, when a trial is due to begin at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court.

The Metropolitan Police said Louis Pedro Verdasca dos Santos Costa was charged in connection with the incident on Saturday (March 5) on two counts of unlawfully being airside, and unlawfully being on an aircraft.

They said firefighters were called to break into the bomb and bullet proof cockpit of the Boeing 747, designed to protect pilots from acts of terrorism, where an intruder had locked himself inside after slipping through the airport’s perimeter fence.

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