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Bomb scare alert disrupts flights at Cork Airport
 PASSENGERS
flying in to Cork Airport were caught up in a major bomb scare this week.
Security services were put on full alert after a note was found on an
Air Fortuna flight carrying 120 passengers from Faro in Portugal to Ireland.
The crew on board notified Cork Airport immediately and it put in place
an emergency plan created for such events.
After the aircraft landed it was kept away from the main airport terminal
on an outer runway.
The passengers were taken off the aeroplane and bussed to the main building
before gardaí began a search of the aircraft.
The army bomb squad at Collins Barracks were alerted and were kept on
standby while the gardaí investigated.
Eventually after a thorough search of the aeroplane authorities were able
to declare the event a hoax.
An airport spokesman said that as soon as the alert came in from the aircraft
officials were able to put in place the emergency plan.
There have been a number of incidents of bomb scares on aeroplanes particularly
since the increased threat of a terrorist attack after September 11.
Last year a Ryanair Boeing 737 aircraft was diverted to Prestwick Airport
near Glasgow as a result of a mid-air bomb scare which turned out to be
a hoax warning left in a magazine on board the aircraft.
The aircraft had been carrying 172 passengers including 71 Carlow schoolgirls
from Beauvais to Dublin. |
