A plane carrying 161 passengers on board was forced to make an emergency landing in Burgas, Bulgaria on Thursday due to a bomb threat. The passenger aircraft took off from Warsaw, Poland and was en route to the beach resort town Hurghada, Egypt, according to Bulgarian authorities, Reuters reported.
Passengers and crew onboard the aircraft, run by Polish national carrier LOT, were safely evacuated and the plane was checked for explosive devices, but no bomb was found, according to a Burgas airport spokesperson.
"The plane landed in Burgas at 5:48 a.m. (10:48 p.m. ET) after a request for flight number LLP8015 traveling from Warsaw to Hurghada to make an emergency landing, due to a report of the presence of explosives on board," said the press officer.
Agata Pinuszewska, a passenger on the plane, said that a fellow passenger on the aircraft announced that there was a bomb on the plane shortly after its departure from the Polish capital. The man was being interrogated by authorities at the airport, according to Polish news publication TVN24, The New York Times reported.
On Wednesday, two Air France flights scheduled to arrive at Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport, were diverted following a bomb threat, as HNGN previously reported.
