Alarm in Madrid by a note on an airplane: “Has bomb” – infonews

false bomb threat by a handwritten note in English pinned with a knife in a Saudi Arabian airliner Thursday triggered the alert in the Madrid airport Playing in the capital of Spain , where the device was registered for explosives after the evacuation of the passengers.

The notice bomb threat was given by the commander of the flight SVA 226 Saudi Airlines when it was about to take off from Madrid heading for Riyadh, the Saudi capital, according to Aena, the body that manages the Spanish airports, in his Twitter account.

After declaring “general alert” the authorities put Start the antiterrorist protocol and forced to drive the aircraft, with 97 passengers and 15 crew, to an isolated area of ​​Terminal 4 (T4) from the airport, which was evacuated.

Shortly after, once the passengers disembarked and were transferred to a qualified to serve them room, AENA said alarm down to “local” level.

Later, officers from the experts Civil Guard explosives ( EOD) recorded the aircraft and found no bomb , so the alert was deactivated.

the airport was operating “at all times” continues to operate normally, Aena remarked when he had not raised the alert.

nor panic or stress situations occurred among the passengers who were in the international terminal at Regardless of what might experience those directly involved in the event, according to journalists at the scene.

After the alarm was decreed, Spanish Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz, was who he informed -in brief remarks to reporters at the Congress of Deputies that he had found a “handwritten bomb threat” inside the plane.

crew found a note pinned with a knife with the words “bomb threat” written in English according to the Spanish press. El Mundo says the note read: “Have pump 11.30.”.

The notice was placed monitor the prayer hall of the tickets available to the company at the scheduled time of the explosion. was nailed with a knife that belonged to one of the restaurants in the terminal, near the gate, once past the security checkpoint, according to sources of research citations on the Radio being.

the plane was departure time to 1054 in Madrid and was on track but failed to take off.