Planespotterx From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (8 years 8 months 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 4629 times:
Breaking news, a Olympic airlines flight has been diverted to stanstead after a suspect package was found, the flight from Athens to London was escorted into stanstead by RAF fighters.
UAL747DEN From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 2225 posts, RR: 13 Reply 4, posted (8 years 8 months 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 4270 times:
There was NOT a suspect package on board like posted before, it was a bomb threat called in to the airline and after searched they found nothing.
Spacecadet From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 3251 posts, RR: 14 Reply 6, posted (8 years 8 months 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 4180 times:
No news reports I have seen have said there was no bomb on the plane. They are still searching.
Don't jump to conclusions. A lot of people here seem to assume that it's impossible a bomb could ever be on a plane and that all bomb scares must be hoaxes. Well, history has proven that thinking wrong time and time again. Just because one story says "a bomb has not yet been found" doesn't mean there definitively isn't one.
The story is still unfolding and the search ongoing according to the reports I'm reading. It will probably end up being a hoax, but you can never be sure.
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UAL747DEN From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 2225 posts, RR: 13 Reply 7, posted (8 years 8 months 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 4156 times:
Planespotterx,
I know that I was updating the story for you with current information.
Spacecadet,
Your wrong, they have said that there is NO bomb on the aircraft. Im happy to hear that you are following this story so close but you should find a new up to date news source before questioning my information.
Planespotterx From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 8, posted (8 years 8 months 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 4113 times:
UAL747DEN Thanks for the update, as far as I know so far a call was made to a greek newspaper who forwarded the threat onto the airline, onto the captain who chose to make a mayday, and a emergency landing.
Nwc100 From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2004, 98 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (8 years 8 months 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 4037 times:
Hello.....the pax have all deplaned round to the hotel where i work!!!
lucky me im off the weekend, i may pop up there later and take a look sure i can get some photos off it on the tarmac.
Apparently all pax are safe which is the good news will let you know when i find out some more.
Nick
BTW Stansted not Stanstead!!
looks like they havent moved from airside still being intterogated in one of the hangars which the news describes as a dedicated hostage centre!
It looks on the news like it is parked on one of these stands possibly the one with the tu154 on it.
Starlionblue From Hong Kong, joined Feb 2004, 15872 posts, RR: 66 Reply 11, posted (8 years 8 months 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 3841 times:
According to CNN the plane landed under "full emergency conditions". Gimme a break!
It's hardly an emergency landing and what is the difference between an "emergency" and a "full emergency". Is that like the "slightly pregnant"? Gotta love those reporters.
"There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots." - from Citadel by John Ringo
Mika10021 From Greece, joined Jul 2004, 122 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (8 years 8 months 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 3778 times:
Let me give you the complete update.Flight 411 for Olympic Airlines departed from ATH on route to JFK around 13:00.About half and hour before 3 someone called the Ethnos daily newspaper and said that a bomb was on board the plane.Right away the newspaper informed Olympic and Athens Airport.Then the airline informed the pilot who desided to land at the nearest airport.He also ask the Royal Air Force to acompany him as it was done.The plane landed at London Stansted.After they checked it and found nothing and interviewed the passengers the flight was allowed to continue to New York,All 289 passengers and 12 cadin crew are ok and stayed calm during landing.
That is the story so far.The bad think is that it's the flight I usually take.
Andrewuber From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 2528 posts, RR: 44 Reply 14, posted (8 years 8 months 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 3684 times:
Trintocan From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2000, 3191 posts, RR: 4 Reply 16, posted (8 years 8 months 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 3387 times:
The latest on this story is that the plane is still at STN. The search is continuing and the passengers are being questioned. The bomb scare was issued to a Greek newspaper and was communicated to the Captain, who was in the vicinity of UK airspace at the time. He reported to the British authorities who scrambled 2 Tornado jets to escort the plane to STN (plus a helicopter). Upon landing there the 301 aboard were evacuated and the search started - this has thus gone on for the last 8 hours.
This is a scary sort of occurrence. It is not good news for severely troubled Olympic Airways at all.
Greek_fspilot From Greece, joined Jun 2000, 23 posts, RR: 0 Reply 18, posted (8 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 1692 times:
It seems that they did it again....
According to the Greek news site www.in.gr ,
(Greek article http://www.in.gr/news/article.asp?lngEntityID=569538&lngDtrID=244) Today, as like last Sunday, the flight OA411 of Olympic Airlines from Athens to New York JFK made an emergency landing on Shannon airport in West Ireland. According to in.gr, someone called again a daily newspaper in Athens telling them that they put a bomb on the Olympic aircraft bound to the US.
I suppose that someone thinks it's funny diverting a Jet plane with 250 passengers, bumping some fuel, destroying the airline schedule and leaving the crew grounded for crewrest due to the expired duty hours...
Trintocan From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2000, 3191 posts, RR: 4 Reply 19, posted (8 years 7 months 3 weeks 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 1578 times:
Oops! My mistake there - I should have said Olympic Airlines, not Airways, as the name was changed last year to Airlines. I hope though that they find the perpetrator of this mischief.
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