Um Airbus A330 da Aeroflot, que fazia a ligação Nova Iorque-Moscovo, aterrou de emergência no aeroporto de Reiquejavique, na Islândia, esta quinta-feira, após um alerta de bomba, declarou a porta-voz da companhia aérea russa à agência France Presse.
"Recebemos um telefonema anónimo sobre a presumível existência de explosivos a bordo do avião durante o voo Nova Iorque-Moscovo. O comandante de bordo decidiu aterrar de emergência" na Islândia, disse a porta-voz da Aeroflot, Irina Dannenberg.
O Airbus, com 200 pessoas a bordo, "aterrou com toda a segurança no aeroporto de Reiquejavique", indicou, adiantando que estava a ser feito o controlo das bagagens e dos passageiros.
Fontes dos serviços aeroportuários moscovitas disseram à Interfax que no telefonema foi indicado que estavam no avião cinco malas com explosivos.
Aeroflot Airbus A330-300, registration VQ-BPI performing flight SU-103 (dep Aug 15th) from New York JFK,NY (USA) to Moscow Sheremetyevo (Russia) with 236 people on board, was enroute over the Atlantic when American law enforcement received an anonymous message indicating five suitcases on board of the aircraft would carry explosives set to detonate upon arrival in Moscow. The crew was informed about that message and decided to divert to Keflavik (Iceland) where the aircraft landed safely on runway 20 about 2 hours after the crew declared emergency.
The aircraft, luggage and passengers were searched, no explosives were found. The aircraft was released to continue the flight, however, due to crew duty time limitations is now expected to reach Moscow on Aug 17th at about 03:30L with a delay of 15 hours.
A second bomb threat is being reported in Russia that was phoned in to Russian Authorities before Polet flight VQ-751 was able to depart Moscow Domodedovo towards Voronezh (Russia).
The aircraft, luggage and passengers were searched, no explosives were found. The aircraft was released to continue the flight, however, due to crew duty time limitations is now expected to reach Moscow on Aug 17th at about 03:30L with a delay of 15 hours.
A second bomb threat is being reported in Russia that was phoned in to Russian Authorities before Polet flight VQ-751 was able to depart Moscow Domodedovo towards Voronezh (Russia).
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