Ryanair Deals With Second Boeing 737 Bomb Threat In One Week

A Ryanair plane has received a bomb threat but has landed safely and all passengers are unharmed. The aircraft landed in Oslo and is being attended to by Norwegian police. It’s the second time this week Ryanair has had to deal with a threat of this nature on one of its flights.

 

Passengers evacuated 

Updates published in a tweet at around 12:30 UTC today revealed that a Ryanair flight had received a bomb threat while in the air. The communication indicated that the plane had landed safely on the runway in Oslo and that police were in attendance in what the tweet describes as ‘great force’.

#Oslolufthavn. Et fly fra Ryanair har mottatt en bombetrussel mens det var i lufta. Flyet har landet trygt på rullebanen. Situasjonen er uavklart. Vi er på stedet med store styrker.

— Politiet i Øst (@politietost) July 17, 2020

 Minutes later, the Norwegian police advised that the emergency services were assisting with the situation, and that passengers had begun to be evacuated from the plane. By 13:15, all passengers were confirmed to be off the plane and to have been transported away in busses.

The police advised that the aircraft will now be examined by the Emergency Response Troops and the bomb squad. It appears the flight was from London Stansted and that Oslo was indeed its intended destination.