No explosives found on Turkish aircraft after emergency landing in Ireland

  25 January 2016    Read: 1543
No explosives found on Turkish aircraft after emergency landing in Ireland
Irish authorities found no explosive devices on board of Turkish Airlines flight TK34, which was forced to make an emergency landing in Ireland due to a bomb threat.
Earlier in the day, the Boeing 777-300 en route from Houston (Texas) to the biggest Turkish city of Istanbul landed in Shannon Airport after the crew members had found a writing note with the word "bomb" on it.

During the search of the aircraft in Shannon nothing suspicious was detected, The Irish Times newspaper reported, citing a spokesman of the airline.

The newspaper added that all the passengers and crew members had been disembarked and investigation into the incident was underway.

It is not the first time a hoax bomb threat forced Turkish planes to make an emergency landing. The most recent incident took place in November 2015, when a Turkish Airlines flight from New York City to Istanbul safely diverted to Halifax, Canada.

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