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A Ryanair airplane is seen on the runway, after touchdown at Athens’ Worldwide Eleftherios Venizelos airport, following a bomb menace in midair, on the outskirts of Athens, Greece (Picture: Reuters)
A bomb menace led to 2 F-16 jets and Hungarian warplanes escorting the flight to Athens
Greek police on Sunday stated that they had discovered no explosives on board a Ryanair flight from Poland, following an earlier bomb menace.
A search of the passengers and the plane “didn’t discover something suspicious,” the police stated in a press release.
The Boeing 737 flight from Katowice with 190 folks on board had landed in Athens with an escort of two F-16 jets, after earlier being shadowed by Hungarian warplanes, Greek officers stated.
Piotr Adamczyk, public relations supervisor at Katowice airport, stated that they had acquired a phone warning because the airplane was flying over Slovakia.
“After the airplane took off, there was a name to the airport info centre regarding the attainable presence of an explosive gadget on board,” Adamczyk advised AFP.
The flight had landed at an remoted space at Athens Worldwide Airport shortly earlier than 1600 GMT, a delay of almost two-and-a-half hours.
It had earlier been diverted to fly over the ocean because it approached Athens as a precaution.
“Crew onboard flight FR6385 travelling from Katowice to Athens had been notified of a possible safety menace onboard and consistent with security procedures, continued to Athens the place it landed safely earlier than being met by the Greek authorities,” Ryanair stated in a press release.
“Passengers disembarked usually,” it added.
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