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Rafael Salido

Turkish Airlines flight makes emergency landing in Barcelona after in-flight alert

A Turkish Airlines flight made an emergency landing at Barcelona's El Prat Airport on Thursday after a passenger created an in-flight wireless network whose name contained a bomb threat, a spokesperson for the airline said.

As flight TK1853 from Istanbul was approaching its destination in Barcelona, "it was detected that a passenger established an in-flight internet access point and set the network name to include a bomb threat," Yahya Üstün said.

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