Bomb Threat Forces Flight Diversion

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LONDON - A bomb threat forced a New York-bound Greek airliner to make an emergency landing Sunday at London's Stansted Airport escorted by military jets, authorities said.



Police sources in Greece said the Athens daily newspaper Ethnos received a phone call saying there was a bomb on board Olympic Airlines plane.


Authorities immediately notified the pilot, who asked for a military escort, said the sources.


Britain's Royal Air Force scrambled planes to assist the jet, the Ministry of Defense said. The plane, Olympic flight 411 from Athens to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, landed safely at Stansted at 3:30 p.m., an airport spokeswoman said.

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