Greek warplanes escorted a
Ryanair
flight from Poland to Greece with more than
190 people on Sunday after
a bomb alert
was reported to authorities, a
Defense Ministry source said.
The plane landed at Athens International Airport before 16:00 GMT.
A bomb disposal team checked it out, state news agency ANA reported.
The experts determined that it was a false alarm.
The plane, which was going from Katowice to Athens, was escorted earlier by Hungarian planes, the source said.
It landed in an isolated part of the Athens international airport, ANA added.
Passengers are removed from the Ryanair plane after the bomb threat.
Photo: Reuters
"The passengers disembarked and are being checked," Greek police spokeswoman Constantia Dimoglidou said.
These are 186 passengers and 6 crew members who left the plane without taking their belongings with them.
Firefighters and police officers inspected the aircraft and luggage.
In the late afternoon, the Greek police indicated that no explosive device had been found on board the plane.
The search of the passengers and the aircraft "did not lead to the discovery of anything suspicious," Greek police said in a statement.
Piotr Adamczyk, an official at the Katowice airport, said they received
a warning call
when the plane was over Slovakia.
"After the plane took off, a call came to the airport information center which pointed to the possible presence of an explosive device on board," Adamczyk told AFP.
"We contacted air traffic control, who subsequently contacted the pilots," he added.
With information from AFP