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B-737 en route from Portugal to GB diverted due to alleged bomb-pack

London, United Kingdom - It was an unclaimed cell phone

An airliner flying from Portugal to Great Britain with 108 passengers, has been re-directed in the late afternoon yesterday, to London-Stansted Airport under two RAF’s Tornado escort, because a suspect pack was found aboard but then it unveiled only a mobile phone; a passenger spotted the worrying presence. The Boeing 737 left from Faro, touristic resort in Southern Portugal, bound for Coventry (...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 121787
Rome, Italy, 06/08/2005 14:47
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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