LONDON, Dec 23, Reuter: A bomb threat caused an air Indian Boeing 747 bound for New York to return to London’s Heathrow airport on Friday, an airline spokesman said.
About 30 minutes after the plane carrying 250 people took off, Air India’s New York office received an anonymous telephone message that a bomb was abroad.
The warning was radioed to the capital of air India flight 109 who decided to return to London, the spokesman said.
The Jumbo landed and taxied to an isolated area of the airport where passengers got out and the plane was searched.
Earlier, one of the airport’s terminals was evacuated for nearly an hour after the discovery of a suspect suitcase. A bomb disposal team later found it contained only clothes.
Article extracted from this publication >> December 30, 1988
