Flight from Tel Aviv makes emergency cease after bomb risk

An Austrian Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to Vienna made an emergency touchdown in Sofia on Sunday after a bomb risk, Bulgarian authorities mentioned.

The Airbus A320 landed safely with 51 passengers and 6 crew members aboard after reportedly receiving a bomb risk close to the Bulgarian-Romanian border.

“During the flight, ​on the border with Romania, the crew reported a ​bomb risk sign and determined to land in Sofia terribly,” the Bulgarian transport ​ministry mentioned ​in a ⁠assertion.

Fighter jet escorts aircraft

The Airbus A320 aircraft was flying from Tel Aviv for Vienna however was diverted to Sofia in Bulgaria at 9:25 p.m., air tracker Flightradar24 knowledge confirmed.

Data from one other flight-tracking platform, ADS-B Exchange, confirmed that the flight transmitted a squawk code 7700, a sign for a normal emergency, across the time it was diverted.

A Bulgarian MiG-29 fighter jet was scrambled to escort the plane.

Following the evacuation of passengers after touchdown, a safety search of the aircraft was launched, Austrian Airlines mentioned in an announcement quoted by Austrian information company APA.

“Once the search of the plane is full, the passengers can be rebooked onto different flights as rapidly as attainable,” the airline mentioned.

Last month, the co-pilot of Flydubai flight was suspected of attacking his pilot within the cockpit, and trying to hijack the aircraft and crash it intentionally in Israel.

Meanwhile, final week, an unintended hijacking alert from a business flight from the Corfu in Greece to the German city of Nuremberg brought on each Croatia and Germany each to scrambled fighter jets.

Edited by: Dmytro Hubenko

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