Fri, Aug 18, 2006
ANN REALTIME UPDATE 08.18.06 1500
EDT: Things are returning to normal at the airport in Brindisi,
Italy, where a British charter flight bound for Egypt was diverted
Friday after a note written on a sick bag claimed a bomb was
onboard the Boeing 767.
"The alarm has been called off," said Brindisi border police
chief Salvatore de Paolis.
A spokesperson for Excel Airways said the landing was a
precautionary measure.
"It is all over," said the spokeswoman. "The checks have gone on
and once it is all cleared the passengers are going back onto the
aircraft and it will resume its journey -- sooner rather than
later, we hope."
Original Report
Aero-News has learned a chartered British 767 enroute to Egypt
was diverted to a southern Italian airport Friday, after the pilot
reported a bomb may have been onboard.
Italian officials told the Associated Press the plane landed in
Brindisi after receiving an escort by an Italian Air Force F-16,
following the discovery of a handwritten note saying there was a
bomb on the plane.
Salvatore De Paolis, a spokesman for border police at the
airport, told SKY TG 24 television news the note was written in
English.
The plane was flying from London's Gatwick airport -- one
of three British airports under heightened security after te
foiling of a suspected terror plot earlier this month -- to
Hurghada, Egypt, according to Italy's ENAV air traffic agency.
All 280 passengers and crew were safely taken off the aircraft,
and authorities are now searching the plane.
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