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Spanish police have surrounded a passenger plane that landed at a Barcelona airport today amid an ‘onboard threat’.
The plane, a Turkish Airlines jet that departed from Istanbul airport this morning and landed at El Prat Airport just before 11am, was escorted by Spanish and French warplanes over the Mediterranean Sea, according to El Nacional.
The threat was detected as the plane was near the coast of Italy, at around 10am.
The plane circled several times before landing. Police surrounded the plane and boarded it soon after.
Upon landing on Runway 2, the plane was reportedly moved to a safe area at a distant parking lot.
There were 148 passengers and seven crew members onboard the Airbus A-321 as it landed, all of whom are being reviewed by investigators, local media reported.
The government of Catalonia said today that it has ‘activated the Aerocat plan [special plan for aeronautical emergencies] to monitor the risk situation on a flight landed at El Prat’.
More to follow.
