Posted on 10/05/2004 6:37:20 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
Israeli jet fighters have forced an incoming Lufthansa airliner to land in Cyprus after a bomb alert that German officials had not considered serious. "We wanted to fly to Tel Aviv but the Israeli authorities forced us to land in Larnaca," said a Lufthansa official.
The flight from Frankfurt landed safely and security staff are searching it.
Three passenger jets - two from Greece to New York and one British Airways flight from Berlin - have been diverted after bomb hoaxes in the last 10 days.
"We came to the conclusion with the German authorities that this alert was not serious," a spokeswoman told the AFP news agency.
The threat was transmitted by telephone call to the Lufthansa office in Frankfurt.
There were 331 passengers and 18 crew on board the Boeing 747-400 jet, the spokeswoman said.
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