The authorities on the Hamburg Airport in Germany suspended all flights for roughly 90 minutes on Monday after receiving what they referred to as “a reputable risk” that talked about a selected flight coming from Tehran.
The aircraft in query landed safely and was parked in an remoted part of the airport. All 198 passengers and 16 crew members left the aircraft with out incident. The police then took the vacationers to an remoted gate and subjected them to vigorous safety screenings, much like these carried out earlier than takeoff, mentioned Marcus Henschel, a spokesman for the federal police on the airport.
The risk “was decided to be credible and so we initiated the suitable response,” Mr. Henschel mentioned.
The risk towards the aircraft got here in an e-mail despatched to a number of recipients, together with the federal police on the airport, early Monday morning, Mr. Henschel mentioned in a cellphone interview.
The flight was a direct flight operated by Iran Air, the nation’s nationwide provider.
Due to high-tech safety screening measures, main threats to airplanes have grow to be uncommon in Europe.
With round 11 million passengers a yr, Hamburg’s airport is Germany’s fifth largest.
The police screened baggage and searched the aircraft totally, however when by 2:15 p.m. native time that they had discovered nothing, the airport was reopened to common visitors.