Gouabafla
25th Nov 2006, 10:42
I've looked on both R & N and African Aviation and not found a reference to this incident - apologies if I've missed it. Does anyone know more?
PARIS — A plane heading from Paris to the West African nation of Ivory Coast was diverted to an airport in southern France Thursday and it was safely evacuated following a bomb threat, officials said.
The Air Ivoire Airbus A321 with 52 people on board was flying from Orly Airport, outside Paris, to Abidjan in Ivory Coast. It landed at the airport in Marseille, the southern French port city, an airline official in Abidjan, Ivory Coast said.
Officials received a threatening phone call saying a bomb was aboard the flight, Christian Fremont, top official in the southern Bouches-du-Rhone region, told France 2 television.
The airplane was isolated at the Marseille airport, which was shut down for an hour Thursday afternoon because of the threat.
Link here (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4356589.html). More links here (http://news.google.com/news?ie=utf8&oe=utf8&persist=1&hl=en&client=google&ncl=1111448822).
PARIS — A plane heading from Paris to the West African nation of Ivory Coast was diverted to an airport in southern France Thursday and it was safely evacuated following a bomb threat, officials said.
The Air Ivoire Airbus A321 with 52 people on board was flying from Orly Airport, outside Paris, to Abidjan in Ivory Coast. It landed at the airport in Marseille, the southern French port city, an airline official in Abidjan, Ivory Coast said.
Officials received a threatening phone call saying a bomb was aboard the flight, Christian Fremont, top official in the southern Bouches-du-Rhone region, told France 2 television.
The airplane was isolated at the Marseille airport, which was shut down for an hour Thursday afternoon because of the threat.
Link here (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4356589.html). More links here (http://news.google.com/news?ie=utf8&oe=utf8&persist=1&hl=en&client=google&ncl=1111448822).