THILLER IN THE AIR TWO EMIRATE FLIGHTS FROM ATHENS DIVERTED FOR POSSIBLE TERRORIST ATTACK

 

Two Emirate flights from the Athens airport "Eleftherios Venizelos" to Dubai and New York were ordered to divert the following information relayed by the CIA to Greek authorities of a possible terrorist threat.

After intelligence from the CIA was assessed as serious by the Greek National Intelligence Services EYP that a suspected Arab passenger was aboard a company flight from Athens was immobilized before take-off and the second returned to land in Athens. 

At the Athens airport, a crisis management committee quickly made passengers on the flight to Dubai thoroughly checked as well as their luggage without locating the suspected person. Shortly after 9 pm passengers started boarding the plane again. The flight will be delayed by three hours. 

The second flight EK 209 bound for New York had already taken off and was over Sardinia in Italy when the pilot was notified to land immediately.  However. neither Italy nor France allowed the plane to land at any oftheir airports forcing it to return to Athens