Bomb threat forces French plane to land in Brazil

By DPA,

Rio de Janeiro : An Air France jet with 405 passengers made an emergency landing in north-east Brazil after a bomb threat, which later turned out to be false, local media reported.


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The aircraft which also had 18 crew was en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris when the control tower received a bomb threat, Brazilian newspaper O Globo reported.

The Boeing 747 was isolated in one sector of the Recife airport after landing, but an inspection found no explosives.

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