Austrian Airlines flight from Tel Aviv makes emergency landing after bomb threat
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An Austrian Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to Vienna made an emergency landing in Bulgaria after a bomb threat was reported near the Bulgarian-Romanian border. A MiG-29 fighter jet escorted the plane.
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An Austrian Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to Vienna made an emergency landing in Sofia on Sunday after a bomb threat, Bulgarian authorities said.
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The Airbus A320 landed safely with 51 passengers and six crew members aboard after reportedly receiving a bomb threat near the Bulgarian-Romanian border.
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"During the flight, on the border with Romania, the crew reported a bomb threat signal and decided to land in Sofia extraordinarily," the Bulgarian Transport Ministry said in a statement.
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Austrian Airlines gave the all-clear on Monday morning, confirming in a statement that "no danger was identified" after a search of the aircraft, passengers and crew.
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It added that the flight continued to Vienna with all the affected passengers.
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The Airbus A320 plane was flying from Tel Aviv for Vienna but was diverted to Sofia in Bulgaria at 9:25 p.m., air tracker Flightradar24 data showed.
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Data from another flight-tracking platform, ADS-B Exchange, showed that the flight transmitted a squawk code 7700, a signal for a general emergency, around the time it was diverted.
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A Bulgarian MiG-29 fighter jet was scrambled to escort the aircraft.
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Following the evacuation of passengers after landing, a security search of the plane was launched, Austrian Airlines said in a statement quoted by Austrian news agency APA.
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Last month, the co-pilot of Flydubai flight was suspected of attacking his pilot in the cockpit, and attempting to hijack the plane and crash it intentionally in Israel.
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Meanwhile, last week, an accidental hijacking alert from a commercial flight from the Corfu in Greece to the German city of Nuremberg caused both Croatia and Germany both to scrambled fighter jets.
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