Flight emergency landing of TK15: “false” bomb threat

The Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport and Logistics assured Monday that the plane of the Turkish Airlines inspection operation, ensuring TK15 flight Istanbul-Sao Paolo, showed that the alert bomb, which forced the aircraft to land urgently to Mohammed V airport in Casablanca, was “false.”

A statement from the upstart department relaesed Monday, said that “the aircraft (…) conducted an emergency landing Monday in the afternoon, 12:00 to 1:20 p.m. at the Mohammed V airport in Casablanca following a warning of the bomb. ”

“All services and authorities have undertaken measures and security procedures, according to your local emergency plan in airports of the Kingdom,” the source said, adding that after evacuation of passengers and control of the plane The bomb threat proved “wrong”.

The same source states that the inspection, filtering and monitoring carried out at that time on the plane “were negative.”

The plane was allowed to leave the airport at 4:56 p.m. to Sao Paolo, the statement added.