ANKARA, Turkey—A Vistara airline flight en route to Germany from India made a forced landing in Turkey on Friday following a bomb threat, Turkish officials said.
Flight VTI027 from Mumbai to Frankfurt, with 234 passengers and 13 crew members on board, landed at the airport in Erzurum, in eastern Turkey, and the passengers were safely evacuated from the plane, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said.
Two bomb disposal experts and two search dogs were going through the plane while the airport was closed to all departures and landings, Gov. Mustafa Ciftci told reporters.
By evening, there was no information that any explosive device had been found….
Bomb Threat Forces Vistara Airline Plane En Route to Frankfurt to Land in Turkey
