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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Flight forced to make emergency landing in Barcelona after network name ‘bomb threat’

The flight made an emergency landing at Barcelona’s El Prat Airport - (Getty/iStock)

A Turkish Airlines flight was forced to make 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, an airline spokesperson said.

The spokesperson, Yahya Üstün, confirmed that as the Turkish Airlines flight TK1853 from Istanbul neared Barcelona’s international airport, "it was detected that a passenger established an in-flight internet access point and set the network name to include a bomb threat."

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