{"id":25946,"date":"2016-06-09T02:08:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T02:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/egyptair-jet-lands-in-uzbekistan-after-hoax-bomb\/"},"modified":"2016-06-09T02:08:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T02:08:06","slug":"egyptair-jet-lands-in-uzbekistan-after-hoax-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/egyptair-jet-lands-in-uzbekistan-after-hoax-bomb\/","title":{"rendered":"EgyptAir jet lands in Uzbekistan after hoax bomb threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{An EgyptAir plane that was forced to land in Uzbekistan due to a hoax bomb threat has been cleared to resume its journey from Cairo to Beijing.}<\/p>\n<p>All 118 passengers and 17 crew on board the Airbus A330-220 were evacuated at Urgench International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft was searched by Uzbek security forces but no explosive device was found, Egyptian officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Three weeks ago, an EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo carrying 66 people crashed into the Mediterranean Sea.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the crash remains a mystery, although Egyptian officials have said an act of terrorism is more likely than a technical failure.<\/p>\n<p>French investigators said last week that signals from one of the plane&#8217;s black boxes had been detected about 290km (180 miles north) of the Egyptian coast.<\/p>\n<p>{{&#8216;Anonymous caller&#8217;}}<\/p>\n<p>The chairman of EgyptAir, Safwat Mussallam, told the AFP news agency that Flight MS955 left Cairo at 21:55 GMT (23:55 Cairo time) on Tuesday and was scheduled to land in Beijing at 07:34 GMT (15:34 Beijing time) on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>During the flight, an anonymous caller telephoned security agents in Cairo to say a bomb was on board the aircraft and the pilot was told to land at the nearest airport.<\/p>\n<p>The plane eventually touched down at Urgench, about 840km (600 miles) west of the Uzbek capital Tashkent, at 03:00 GMT (08:00 Tashkent time) on Wednesday, Uzbekistan Airways said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The aircraft was evacuated, searched and the result of the search was negative, we were told by the Uzbek authorities, who gave us the authorisation to take off again,&#8221; Mr Mussallam said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We must take any warning seriously,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Egyptian officials told the Associated Press news agency that the plane resumed its journey to Beijing about four hours after landing in Urgench.<\/p>\n<p>The official Chinese news agency, Xinhua, also said the bomb threat was a hoax.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-12696 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_89913516_89913224.jpg\" alt=\"An anonymous caller told Egyptian security agents a bomb was on board the flight \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{An EgyptAir plane that was forced to land in Uzbekistan due to a hoax bomb threat has been cleared to resume its journey from Cairo to Beijing.} All 118 passengers and 17 crew on board the Airbus A330-220 were evacuated at Urgench International Airport. 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