A Ryanair plane has been returned to service following a bomb alert on a flight from Poland to Greece
Greek warplanes were scrambled to escort the aircraft, which had over 190 people on board, after a bomb alert was reported to authorities, a defence ministry source said.
Two F-16 jets were dispatched to escort the flight, from Katowice to Athens, as it entered Greek airspace from North Macedonia, the source told AFP.The flight finally landed at an isolated area at Athens International Airport shortly before 4pm GMT, a delay of nearly 2.5 hours.
"Passengers disembarked normally and local authorities carried out a security search before clearing the aircraft to return to service.""The pilot informed the Athens control tower but we don't know where the information originally came from," Greek police spokeswoman Constantia Dimoglidou told AFP.