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| Turkey-bound plane evacuated at Kassel Airport, Germany, over ‘dangerous luggage’ | |
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| An airliner bound for Turkey has been evacuated at the airport in the German city of Kassel, following an anonymous tip-off about suspicious luggage being found on board, police said in a statement. | An airliner bound for Turkey has been evacuated at the airport in the German city of Kassel, following an anonymous tip-off about suspicious luggage being found on board, police said in a statement. |
| "An anonymous caller contacted Kassel-Calden airport this afternoon. He said there was a suitcase on board one of the airplanes in the departures area that could pose a threat," the statement by police from the state of Hesse reads, as cited by Reuters. | "An anonymous caller contacted Kassel-Calden airport this afternoon. He said there was a suitcase on board one of the airplanes in the departures area that could pose a threat," the statement by police from the state of Hesse reads, as cited by Reuters. |
| A large police presence has been deployed to the scene and officers are now searching the plane for any suspicious objects, particularly for a suitcase that an anonymous caller said could pose a threat, a police spokesman, Torsten Werner, told local HNA News. | |
| “We immediately removed all passengers and crew members from the plane,” the spokesman said, adding that they were taken to the airport’s special safe zone. | |
| There were 128 passengers and seven crew members on board, according to German media. | |
| The aircraft belongs to Germania Airlines and was bound for the Turkish resort of Antalya. | |
| “Germania [Airlines] confirms that a threat has been issued against its flight ST8056 scheduled to set out to Antalya from Kassel at 14:45 (local time) (13:45 GMT) on July 5, 2016,” a company spokeswoman told Hessenschau.de. | |
| The company is working in close contact with police, she added. |