ATHENS, April 23 (Xinhua) -- A Greek Olympic Airlines flight from Athens to Brussels made an emergency landing on Monday at Munich airport after a threatening call in Athens that a bomb had been planted on the plane.

    According to a report from the Athens News Agency, the 130 passengers on board en route from Athens to Brussels via Strasbourg, included 11 Greek members of the European Parliament on board, were all safely evacuated from the airplane, and a stringent security search by German police had not turned up anything suspicious thus far.

    Greece's Consul General in Munich rushed to the airport to provide any necessary assistance.

    The airplane took off at 9:15 a.m. local time (0715 GMT) from Athens, and about an hour later, at 10:10 a.m. (0810 GMT), an unidentified caller phoned a police station near Athens' international airport warning that an explosive device had been planted on the airplane. The plane made an urgent landing at around 10:46 a.m. (0946 GMT) in Munich, Germany.

    The passengers will resume their journey upon completion of the security search being conducted by German police, with the assistance of specially trained sniffer dogs.

Greek airliner lands safely in Munich after bomb threat

    BERLIN, April 23 (Xinhua) -- A Greek airliner bound for France made an unscheduled landing in Munich on Monday after a bomb threat, German authorities said.

    The Olympic Flight 145 landed at 10:46 a.m. local time in Munich after Greek police received a phone call saying that an explosive device was on board the Boeing 737. Full story