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Empresas y finanzas

Bomb threat forces plane to land in north Greece


    ATHENS (Reuters) - A passenger plane travelling from Germany to Turkey made a safe emergency landing in the Greek city of Thessaloniki on Friday after a crew member found a piece of paper with a bomb warning in the toilet, the airliner said.

    The plane, a Turkish SunExpress aircraft with 62 passengers and six crew on board, landed at 3:58 p.m. British time and Greek security officials were searching the aircraft before allowing it to resume its journey to Izmir from Stuttgart, Germany.

    SunExpress, a subsidiary of state-owned Turkish Airlines, said in a statement the captain followed security procedures and redirected the plane to the closest airport.

    Greek officials had earlier said the pilot had received a bomb threat on his mobile phone and said the incident was most likely a hoax.

    (Reporting by Lefteris Papadimas and Renee Maltezou in Athens and Ibon Villelabeitia in Ankara; Writing by Harry Papachristou; Editing by Jon Hemming)