Lufthansa Plane Makes Emergency Landing
August 15, 2004, 6:12 PM EDT
BUDAPEST, Hungary -- A Lufthansa airplane flying from Turkey to Germany safely made an emergency landing Sunday in Budapest after an anonymous bomb threat was received, police said.
Lufthansa Flight 3341 from Istanbul landed safely at Ferihegy Airport at 3:15 p.m. after the pilot requested an unscheduled landing, said Viktoria Kovacs, a spokeswoman for the Hungarian National Police.
Kovacs said security personnel did not find any bombs or explosive devices on the Airbus A321, and that the plane would be allowed to continue on to Germany.
The airline said 169 passengers and six crew were on board, but Hungarian police put the number of passengers at 172.
The airline was alerted in Istanbul about a possible bomb threat and made the emergency landing as a precaution, Lufthansa spokesman Thomas Ellerbeck told The Associated Press in Germany.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-hungary-emergency-landing,0,98079,print.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines
Hmmm, I wonder why the disparity in the head count?