Mayday.
A TERRORIST plot to bomb the UK was foiled after the Royal Air Force intercepted calls between commercial airline pilots.
The jihadist attacks were being planned for London, Bath, Brighton and Ipswich in the days after the Paris massacre last November.
Two pilots, who were flying from Amsterdam for a Middle Eastern country, are said to have used coded language which made reference to pop music.
But it was cracked by British spies who believed the duo were trying to smuggle in explosives or chemical weapons.
The suspected terrorists used the emergency “Mayday” frequency to discuss their plot, it was reported.
They boasted that a song would “climb up the charts” — a reference to increases in jihadi recruits once the attacks had been launched.
Analysts took seven hours to decode the transmissions.
In the wake of the Paris attacks which left 130 dead the government considered ramping up the terror threat level in Britain to “critical.”
Defence chiefs plan to deploy more than 5000 troops on the streets of the UK should a terrorist attack take place.
It comes after The Sun revealed airline pilots have been caught trying up emergency radio channels to arrange dates.
“Some used emergency channels to contact other crews to ask after attractive stewardesses, trying to set up dates, thinking they would not be heard by air traffic controllers,” an industry insider said.
This story originally appeared on The Sun.
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