Ryanair Flight From Dublin To Poland Diverted, Over Bomb Threat.

Monday, 31 May 2021 09:35

Plane landed in Berlin.

A Ryanair flight from Dublin to Poland had to make an emergency landing in Germany after a bomb threat.

160 people were on board.

Stephanie Rohan reports.

"This plane left Dublin yesterday evening and made an emergency landing in Berlin at around 7pm Irish time according to the German newspaper Das Bild.
The 160 people on board had to leave the Boeing 737 and Federal police searched the plane along with sniffer dogs
The passengers baggage was also searched but Nothing was found –
a replacement plane was sourced and the passengers then resumed their journey to Krakow in Poland in the early hours of this morning.
It comes a week after a Ryanair flight was forced to divert to Belarus where an opposition journalist was arrested on arrival. "

Ryanair plane diverted to Berlin over ‘potential threat’ https://t.co/ohYCoa0DY4
— The Irish Times (@IrishTimes) May 31, 2021

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