Thomson Airways makes emergency landing in Greece

A British passenger plane has made an emergency landing in Athens following a bomb threat.



Officials say the Thomson Airways Boeing 757-200, was on its way from Bristol to the popular resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt when it was forced to land.



All 213 people on board the plane are said to be unharmed.



Authorities say the plane is now undergoing checks in a remote area of Athens International Airport.



According to Malcolm Brabant, a BBC reporter in Athens, the bomb threat was received by an Egyptian news agency and passed on to the crew of the plane.



The crew then put out a mayday while over northern Greece and two F-16 jets were sent to escort it to Athens.



Once it had landed, there was an orderly evacuation and the plane was taken to a remote area of the airfield where experts were carrying out a search.