Plane makes emergency landing after taking off from Bahrain

Top Stories

An Ural Airlines Airbus.- Reuters file photo
An Ural Airlines Airbus.- Reuters file photo

Baku/Moscow - Nothing suspicious had been found on the plane and that a passenger had been detained.

By Reuters

  • Follow us on
  • google-news
  • whatsapp
  • telegram

Published: Tue 12 Mar 2019, 2:30 PM

Last updated: Tue 12 Mar 2019, 4:57 PM

A Russian Ural Airlines jet bound for Moscow from Bahrain with 225 people aboard made an emergency landing in Baku, Azerbaijan on March 11 because of a suspected bomb on board the plane, Baku airport said.
Flight U6-1116 was en route to Moscow's Domodedovo airport when the crew "received information about possible restricted items" on board, a spokeswoman for Ural Airlines said.
The crew of the Airbus A-321 plane requested an emergency landing at the nearest airport to have checks carried out and it landed in Baku, she said.
A source at the airport told Reuters nothing suspicious had been found on the plane and that a passenger had been detained.


More news from