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Brazilian jet returns to Madrid after bomb threat
December 15, 2015, 10:38 am

The TAM Boeing 777 flight was due to land in Sao Paulo shortly after dawn on Tuesday [Xinhua]

The TAM Boeing 777 flight was due to land in Sao Paulo shortly after dawn on Tuesday [Xinhua]


A Brazilian TAM Boeing 777-32W commercial airliner carrying some 300 passengers from Madrid airport to Sao Paulo was forced to return to its point of origin following suspicions of a bomb on board.

A TAM company statement early Tuesday said that Spanish authorities alerted the crew of a bomb threat 90 minutes into the flight.

Spanish authorities at Madrid’s Barjas airport said that the plane returned safely and that all passengers were evacuated to nearby hotels while explosives experts searched the plane.

According to the Associated Press, no bomb or device was found.

The BRICS Post with inputs from Agencies