Emergency landing at Otopeni Airport

UPDATE: Air traffic at Otopeni Airport is running normally, not being affected by the bomb threat on board a plane, which made an emergency landing, SRI announces. The plane, an Airbus 321 Neo, belonging to the Pegasus Airlines company, was making a flight from Istanbul to Düsseldorf. The passengers were disembarked, checked and taken to a safe area. The luggage and the aircraft were subjected to a pyrotechnic control, which is ongoing, the SRI also reports.

A plane landed safely at Otopeni Airport, after a bomb threat was registered, the Romanian Intelligence Service announced.

The passengers are disembarked, checked and taken to a safe area.

Next comes the pyrotechnic control of all luggage, then of the aircraft, SRI stated in a statement.

Translated by: Radu Matei