Tornado fighters escort jet to Stansted after bomb scare

Telegraph.co.UK ^ | 27 sept 2004 | By Richard Alleyne and Harry de Quetteville

[maine-iac7]

A jet bound for New York made an emergency landing at Stansted airport yesterday after repeated warnings that a bomb was on board.

The pilot of the Olympic Airways flight, carrying 301 passengers and crew from Athens, diverted after a Greek newspaper received three telephone calls saying the plane would be destroyed in revenge for the invasion of Iraq. Two RAF Tornados were scrambled from Coningsby, Lincs, on a "detect, defer or destroy" mission and the Airbus 340 landed at 3.30pm

[maine-iac7]

can't find anything on US news - people need to be aware these terrorists are still out there

[w1andsodidwe]

I just knew I saw this some place.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;s=tornado%20fighters

[nuconvert]

lol. He likes it.

[oolatec]

Greece has troops in Iraq?

[nuconvert]

"Greece has troops in Iraq?"

Not according to Global Security.org. But the plane was headed for N.Y.


"As of August 5, 2004, there were 30 non-U.S. military forces contributing to the ongoing stability operations throughout Iraq. These countries were Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Rep, El Salvador, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Thailand, United Kingdom, and Ukraine."

[expatpat]

Lincs =Lincolnshire, the county where the original Lincoln is. (Lincoln is a corruption of the name the Romans called it: Lindum Colinium -- 'Tree-covered hill'). So now you know......