Warplanes Escort Poland-Greece Flight With 190 Onboard After Bomb Alert

Athens:

Greek warplanes scrambled Sunday to escort a Ryanair flight from Poland to Greece with 190 folks on board after a bomb alert was reported to authorities, officers stated.

Two F-16 jets escorted the flight, which took off from Katowice for Athens, because it entered Greek airspace from North Macedonia, the supply instructed AFP.

The Boeing 737 had earlier been escorted by Hungarian warplanes, the official added.

The flight lastly landed at an remoted space at Athens Worldwide Airport shortly earlier than 1600 GMT, a delay of almost two-and-a-half hours.

“The passengers have disembarked and are being inspected,” Greek police spokeswoman Constantia Dimoglidou instructed AFP.

“There have been 190 folks on board together with the crew. The airplane can be checked after the passengers,” she stated.

Because the airplane approached Athens, it was diverted over the ocean as a precaution.

Piotr Adamczyk, public relations supervisor at Katowice airport, stated they’d obtained a phone warning because the airplane was flying over Slovakia.

“After the airplane took off, there was a name to the airport data centre in regards to the doable presence of an explosive system on board,” Adamczyk instructed AFP.

“We contacted air site visitors management, which subsequently contacted the pilots,” he added.

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