BA flight makes emergency landing
 

BA flight makes emergency landing

British Airways flight A983 has made an emergency landing at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam as a result of a "specific threat" to the flight, BA has said.
The crew on the aircraft, which was carrying 118 passengers from Berlin to London, asked ground staff in the Netherlands for a military escort.

Two Royal Dutch air force jets were immediately scrambled and the aircraft landed safely.

The passengers have been taken off the aircraft while police carry out checks.

Hoaxes

"There was a security threat to flight A983," BA spokesman Steve Double told BBC News Online.

"Passengers are now being screened in the airport... we are still assessing the situation," he said.

An airport spokeswoman said the baggage would be taken off the aircraft and checked.

"Hopefully, this will be completed soon and the passengers will be able to continue on," Pamela Kuypers said.

Two Olympic Airways flights destined for New York were diverted this week after bomb scares which turned out to be hoaxes.

The first of these aircrafts made an emergency landing at Stansted airport in Essex on Sunday while the other landed at Shannon in Ireland on Tuesday.

Both were able to continue their journeys after searches of the aircraft revealed nothing.


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