Turkish plane makes emergency landing after bomb threat
January 23rd, 2010 - 12:53 am ICT by IANSAthens, Jan 22 (DPA) A Turkish plane conducted an emergency landing Friday in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki following a bomb threat.
The airline, SunExpress, received an anonymous call warning of the bomb shortly after the plane carrying 69 people left the German city of Stuttgart and headed to the Turkish port city of Izmir.
The threat was made two hours into the flight, reports said.
The pilot made an emergency landing in Thessaloniki, and officials immediately evacuated the plane.
All passengers and crew were safe and bomb officials were investigating.
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