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Austrian Airlines Flight From Tel Aviv Diverted to Sofia After Bomb Threat
An Austrian Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to Vienna diverted to Sofia, Bulgaria, on Sunday after an anonymous bomb threat was received. The plane, carrying 51 passengers and six crew, landed safely and all were disembarked for security checks.
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What happened
- 01An Austrian Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to Vienna diverted to Sofia, Bulgaria, due to a bomb threat.
- 02The flight, OS82, carried 51 passengers and six crew members who were safely disembarked.
- 03A Bulgarian fighter jet escorted the aircraft to Sofia after the threat was reported over Romanian airspace.
- 04Bulgarian authorities are investigating the incident, with no suspicious findings reported yet.
- 05This is the second anonymous bomb threat against a flight in less than a week.
Bulgarian authorities scrambled a fighter jet to escort the aircraft and are investigating the incident, which follows a similar threat on a Delta flight last week.
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