My goodness .... that's just stupid.
I take it you are glad that your government changed its policy in 2003 then . A big change since its policy had been consistant since 1959 .

With the case of those Afghan hijackers there was nothing else the British courts could legally do , its the law see . You cannot hand someone over to another country if they may face the death penalty , I think the Taliban may possibly have had one of those penalties in place for something like hijacking plus of course how do you hand someone over to a government or judiciary that you do not recognise .

Anyhow back to topic , well done to the pilot . ..... but then again look at his name ....Ahmedou Mohamed Lemineblody hell he is a potential terrorist , take away his pilots license before he sucumbs to the infamous sudden jihad syndrome .