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Hoax bomb threat forces EgyptAir plane to make emergency landing Hoax bomb threat forces EgyptAir plane to make emergency landing
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An EgyptAir flight to China has been forced to make an emergency landing in Uzbekistan after the airline received a call claiming that there was a bomb on board, two Egyptian aviation officials said. An EgyptAir passenger plane, en route from Cairo to Beijing, was forced to make an emergency landing in Uzbekistan on Wednesday after receiving what two Egyptian aviation sources said was a false bomb threat.
They said the plane, which was carrying 118 passengers, was evacuated and searched, but no explosives were found. All 118 passengers and 17 crew members on board the Airbus A-330-220 plane were safely evacuated, the Uzbek state carrier Uzbekistan Airways said in a statement.
“The plane is preparing to resume its journey. It was a hoax, thank God,” said one of the officials. There was no statement from EgyptAir or official confirmation that the threat was a hoax.
EgyptAir has received a number of bomb threats since one of its aircraft crashed into the Mediterranean on 19 May but all have turned out to be hoaxes. The plane landed in Urgench, in western Uzbekistan, after EgyptAir received a call saying there was a bomb on board, two Egyptian aviation sources said. The plane was then searched, but no explosives were found, they said. It has since resumed its journey to Beijing.
“It was a hoax, thank God,” said one of the officials.
An EgyptAir Airbus-320 jet, en route from Paris to Cairo, crashed in the Mediterranean last month, killing all 66 people on board. An investigation to determine why and exactly where it crashed continues.
EgyptAir has received a number of bomb threats since then, all of which have turned out to be hoaxes.